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Aug 30, 2011Akin to their debut, Fool's Gold have a habit of fizzling like a caffeine rush half-way through, the once-crystalline pop teetering on rustic in its redundancy.
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Aug 19, 2011Open-mindedness and a change of approach is often laudable but, in this case, it has resulted in an album that, whilst entirely pleasant and enjoyable, is far less adventurous.
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Aug 19, 2011It's hard not to wish Fool's Gold had figured out how to develop and expand their approach without compromising so much of what made their debut so delightfully unique.
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Aug 17, 2011Though still sunny and hooky, Leave No Trace lacks the enigmatic spark of its predecessor, especially now that the words are more readily understandable.
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Q MagazineAug 16, 2011Los Angeleans' Paul Simon-channelling second LP. [Sept. 2011, p. 110]
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Aug 16, 2011With the debut, the main argument against Fool's Gold seemed to be that they were appropriating too much African influence, sounds they didn't have a right to, into what was primarily pop. With Leave No Trace, I'd say they've gone too far the other way, eliminating the eccentricities and exoticisms that made them interesting.
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Aug 25, 2011Leave No Trace is an enjoyable time, but the party peaks early.
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Oct 27, 2011Even the sax, which on the debut could unexpectedly tickle your ears right when you thought the band had run out of hooks, sounds like it's here through obligation. And while Top's singing is still committed, it's less buoyant and less assured.
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Sep 15, 2011Not once does this record manage to clamber out of its self-imposed constraints of mediocrity; and for a band genuinely capable of blissful set piece tracks, that makes it mostly a somewhat distressing token.
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Aug 16, 2011The most surprising letdown, though, is vocalist Luke Top's decision to sing mainly in English, which only serves to highlight his shortcomings as a lyricist and emphasize an unfortunate nasal quality that didn't seem nearly as annoying in Hebrew.