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- Summary: This is the first full-length release from New Orleans-based experimental duo Belong since 2011's Common Era.
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- Record Label: Kranky
- Genre(s): Ambient, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Dream Pop, Post-Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Space Rock
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Aug 16, 2024Belong rides the line between dreamy songs and noisy nightmares expertly throughout the album. Most of the band's records are best experienced in full, front to back, and Realistic IX is the same but in a different way.
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Aug 16, 2024That’s Realistic IX in a nutshell: it brings both the burn and the balm.
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Aug 16, 2024Realistic IX is a wonderful record on many levels, just don’t say it’s shoegaze.
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Aug 16, 2024The album sometimes sounds slightly undercooked, like a set of production sketches awaiting further embellishment. And the debt it owes to its influences dilutes any shock of the new. But it takes skill and a degree of daring to riff on an album as monumental as Loveless
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The WireAug 20, 2024The fluttering modulations within the wordless, thrumming “AM/PM” and the panning wafts of fuzz in “Crucial Years” offer welcome variety, but much of Realistic IX feels like a diversion into territory ill-suited to the duo’s strengths. [Sep 2024, p.53]