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- Summary: Asian instrumentation is highlighted on the Chicago minimalist, avant-garde outfit's sixth release.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 7
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Mixed: 3 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Alternative Press[A] divine disc. [Apr 2006, p.207]
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MojoTheir strictly modal, contemplative soundscapes have rarely sounded more compelling. [Mar 2006, p.93]
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The album does rather muddle the group's ongoing identity, but hopefully future releases can serve to confirm this album as the watershed it now appears to be.
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Another very interesting and beautiful album.
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Some of the tracks still don't feel like they offer enough.
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With minimalism, especially of this improvised sort, if you don't like it, give it another listen; and if you still don't like it, ok.
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Up Above Is, in such, a gentle enough jam to work/non-work in an incidentalist sense; but compare it to folk that do this sort of gear with a fearsome seriousness -- like, most obviously, the Vibracathedral Orchestra -- and T&C come up as pale as a Midwestern mid-winter tan.