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Arm's Way is the sound of a band forgetting what made them fun and highly listenable and instead grasping for a grand statement that is far beyond their reach.
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On?Arm's Way, gifted singer-songwriter Nick Thorburn broadens the band's quirk-pop into wonderfully shambolic arena rock--for an arena of 5,000 people.
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Arm’s Way may be technically impressive but ultimately a bit of a boring downer.
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Thorburn’s second record writing songs with the group Islands shows admirable ambition and eclectic musicianship. What hinders this release, however, is a matter of composition.
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Nine of Arm's Way's twelve songs start with legs, but ultimately suffer from an inability to respect their limits.
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Q MagazineEverything here is overdone, whether it's Nick Thorburn's thatrical vocals, the myriad pointless time changes or J'aime Vous Von Quitter's horrid La Bamba-style outero. [June 2008, p.142]
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