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- Summary: The third release from the Portland, Oregon-based garage pop band is its first on the Woodsist label.
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- Record Label: Woodsist
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Noise-Rock
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Feb 19, 2013Ultimately, even layers of fuzzy noise and fully saturated weirdness can't obscure the band's hooks or their unique pop perspective.
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Feb 20, 2013What was once alienating and difficult in Eat Skull’s music now reads as interesting quirks attached to pleasing packages. With III, Eat Skull is willing to be loved--and be loveable, too.
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Feb 19, 2013A well-done lo-fi pop album lost of the things we’re used to: contexts and whatnot that make both us and the analytical process feel much easier, helping us pretend that we really know what’s going on and how to get behind the ideas.
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Mar 1, 2013Eat Skull’s impressive new album is a healthy reminder of what can happen when these two opposing halves converge into one beautiful whole.
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Mar 6, 2013Eat Skull can be really charming when they want to be, but just as often they seem content to putter around, resulting in enough slack to overwhelm such a short record.
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Apr 3, 2013There is a consistency to the album that is both its strength and its weakness.
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Feb 19, 2013III largely eschews fuzz but has plenty of rough edges.