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This album is not only the Like Young’s most diverse, is also its best.
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The only complaint with the album is that all the angst and gloom can get pretty heavy at times, but if you are in the right mood, Last Secrets can play like the soundtrack to a broken dream.
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Even though it strictly operates in one gear, Last Secrets navigates all the richness the high road has to offer.
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There is a thickness here, a toughness that’s never been present before. It’s more than Pixies, though. In fact, what Last Secrets is not is perhaps more profound: it’s not garage rock, all tinny guitars and stripped down. It’s not sweet young married people music. It’s not boring or played out at all.
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The songs are given more room to fully explore the emotions that fill the members' voices, and the music is fleshed out to portray portraits of moments in the married couple's life.
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The band's longtime devotees will find plenty to love here, but the album isn't memorable enough to make its way into most people's heavy rotation.
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Alternative PressWhen Last Secrets works, it's awesome... but thanks in part to sequencing, it drags toward the end. [Jun 2006, p.180]
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Under The RadarThe themes of anger, rejection, and guilt run dreadfully close to emo territory. [#13, p.99]
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The Like Young don't really veer from their predetermined path too often. They diddle around with loops and what-not occasionally like the rest of us, but their vision is singular, dedicated to the sort of buzz-heavy power-pop that's tough to resist.
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rjporterJul 1, 2006The best album of 2006! These guys should be ruling the streets.
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RobMay 23, 2006This is a solid album. It's a bit underproduced, but there's some nice hooks and the alternating vocals are very complimentary.