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Well worth the wait.
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A stunning return to form.
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Toying with sound and rhythm, noise and melody, Square is less minimalist than Hope, more fractured than Second.
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The Massachusetts trio's newfound love of meandering atmospherics plays like a Broken Social Scene doppelganger dozing off in its own sonic wanderings.
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Those whose favorite form of Wheat is the aforementioned major-label effort, or even the elegant chamber pop of Hope and Adams, might consider this willful album an exercise in self-indulgent noise, but in the context of the duo's career as a whole, it sounds much more like a deliberate stylistic retrenchment.
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Spin[Wheat's] most rousing collection. [Jun 2007, p.97]
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UncutThe results will gladden devotees of fractured, footsore indie-rock. [Jul 2007, p.127]
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This album is a detour from the straightforwardness of Per Second, which means that comparatively it also often feels disjointed and uncomfortable.
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Wheat's scrappy though sometimes endearing fourth album is clearly a stylistic protest against their only major-label release, 2003's bland, vexed, much-delayed-by-Sony Per Second, Per Second, Per Second . . . Every Second.
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There are dozens of bands that do this kind of stuff better, including Wheat themselves.
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If the idea was to shore up the band's indie roots, Wheat has succeeded in the worst possible way.
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File this under 'disappointing'.
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Under The RadarIt fails by dressing up its prettier moments in unnecessary clatter, whereas the noisier bits are already unnecessary. [Summer 2007, p.86]
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The entire album reeks of unnecessary ostentation.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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MW.Jul 11, 2007
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KarenJJun 28, 2007
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WheatFanMay 28, 2007