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- Summary: The first new release in five years for the Rhode Island psych-folk trio is a concept album about a group of children whose lives are changed after a fire burns down one of their houses.
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- Record Label: Razor & Tie
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 6 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Jun 14, 2016It is the sound of a band reaching into new musical territory. Eyeland is flawed but unquestionably rewarding and, at times, outrageously impressive.
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Jun 20, 2016Musically it’s a side trip to the shop of horrors.
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MagnetAug 9, 2016It's a record best described as 13ghosts' illegitimate lovechild with Captain beefheart. [No. 133, p.57]
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Jun 15, 2016It’s musically ambitious, if over-stuffed at times, but unashamedly impenetrable lyrically, even with the “help” of the accompanying gobbledegook short-story and supposed Map of Eyeland.
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Jun 16, 2016Eyeland's willingness to break the Dust Bowl minstrel mold is admirable, and it has enough moments that resonate to win back fans who may have drifted off to greener (or more sepia-toned) pastures during the band's long break from recording, but those listeners will have to be willing to sift through an awful lot of sonic detritus to find them.
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Jun 14, 2016What we have is a confusing, confused and self-indulgent record that frequently sags under its own ambition, with the fleeting moments of beauty offering a chastening reminder that sometimes it’s better to simply stick to what you’re good at..99
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Jun 17, 2016The end product is an incoherent jumble of occasionally pleasant soft folk with mind-numbingly aimless pieces that seem arbitrarily constructed with little direction or focus.
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Positive: 0 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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Jul 27, 2016
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Aug 5, 2017
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