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Mar 6, 2012It's not all slow and mid-tempo numbers that litter the forty-five minute duration of The Slideshow Effect. There are also moments where the band is unafraid to lift the urgency, to create a semblance of sustained momentum, and to incorporate a few timely hooks and memorable melodies along the way.
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Mar 23, 2012While Memoryhouse might be demographically marketed to the youngsters, there's something in the retro-alternative beauty of The Slideshow Effect that aging Gen-Xers raised on the golden age of college radio might appreciate a little more.
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Feb 24, 2012There's a nagging sense of melancholy throughout that gives these tracks a compelling and slightly haunting quality.
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Feb 14, 2012Blends much that has gone before, and serves up a freshly defined new act that has potential for popular success.
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Mar 2, 2012Memoryhouse push their indolent, Sunday morning music as far as possible into the depths of recollection.
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MagnetMar 19, 2012Very clearly the work of art-school kids who use their skills for creating alluring visuals to craft equally enticing music. [No. 85, p.56]
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Feb 28, 2012Even at its most wispy and abstract, though, Slideshow is shrouded in a ghostly poignancy that flutters and fades like a flashback.
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Feb 21, 2012This might not be the experimental genre-crossing venture the duo set out to accomplish, but it is a slideshow of timeless pop songs.
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Feb 27, 2012Despite the leaps and bounds that this effort makes songwriting wise, it just feels less unique than it did before.
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Mar 14, 2012The Slideshow Effect is, likewise, a small gem worth treasuring.
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Mar 9, 2012Daydreams are the landscape of Memoryhouse's world, and they deftly weave not only different atmospheres, but paces.
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Mar 2, 2012On The Slideshow Effect, Memoryhouse strips away the full production, lets the vocals rise to the front, and lets their songs do the talking. The bold choice exposes their weaknesses, but Memoryhouse still has plenty to be proud of.
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Feb 28, 2012There's no doubt the songwriting is there--but the LP's best tracks ("All Our Wonder" and Old Haunts") share the lo-fi production that was a boon to the atmospheric beauty of their EP.
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Feb 27, 2012This is a wonderfully wistful album which shows a band who have grown beyond the ideas which earlier defined them to produce a sound and vision that works perfectly.
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Feb 24, 2012They're a strong band musically, and The Slideshow Effect is a good, well put together piece of work which creeps up on you slowly.
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Feb 14, 2012This is an album for the patient, who are willing, as the title of the album suggests, to sit through a slide show made by someone you don't really know that well.
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Feb 28, 2012Memoryhouse have a ways to go before they're creating music with as much melodic power or depth of feeling as their dream-pop contemporaries.
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Mar 7, 2012The shift in styles more readily exposes the band's strengths and weaknesses.
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Mar 1, 2012In all, this is an album that you might want to really like, but ultimately you'll probably feel a bit cold and aloof at the general lack of variance in the band's sound.
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Feb 28, 2012It was brave of Memoryhouse to drastically change their approach on their first full-length, but while The Slideshow Effect has plenty of appealing moments, they don't add up to a satisfying album.
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Feb 22, 2012They could do with a couple more uptempo nuggets like 'The Kids Were Wrong'.
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UncutFeb 15, 2012[The album recalls] the warm, breezy charms of labelmates Beach house. [Mar 2012, p.92]
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Feb 27, 2012Her melodies sound tired and her deliveries sound rushed.
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MojoMar 23, 2012Pale and pensive indie-pop, cooled to a chill, with [lead singer] Nouvion floating over a similarly tranquil, dreamy wash, like an American Sundays. [Apr 2012, p. 90]
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Feb 29, 2012Insipid marshmallow post-rock that occasionally sniffs in the direction of Yuck or Mogwai, but mostly glowers in a dismally cloying, precious nostalgia.