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May 15, 2013Limits of Desire is more romantic, calling on aural cues from nostalgic ’80s movies but with some modern tricks.
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Jun 3, 2013While Limits of Desire isn't ground-breaking, it's a charming record suggestive of a band with a bright future.
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May 29, 2013By pushing Josh Kolenik’s vocals further up in the mix, the songs tell more of a narrative of discovery than their hazy, ambiguous earlier material.
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May 21, 2013The production isn’t totally underwhelming, just streamlined to develop a sense of dream-like haziness.
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May 14, 2013There’s little doubt that, despite the odd slip into the saccharine and the set’s lack of anything notably outré or innovative, they do this with conviction and integrity, to the extent where Limits of Desire will receive plenty of service from the lovestruck and jaded alike over the span of this hopefully torrid summer.
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May 13, 2013Small Black successfully avoids a sophomore slump by harnessing their various sonic inclinations.
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May 13, 2013You get the feeling that Small Black do want to break free of their past, but they’re not always convincing at showing how badly they want it.
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May 16, 2013The real problem with Limits of Desire is that it’s a decent album that’s difficult to sell.
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May 13, 2013When the band does not explore their influences as assertively, their music blends in a little too closely with that of their peers.
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May 13, 2013The only trouble is that nearly every track captures the same sense of John Hughes-worthy nostalgia, with no cut standing out above the rest.
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Jun 27, 2013While the group’s carefree attitude toward genre saves Limits of Desire from becoming yet another “Millennials-do-the-‘80s” clone LP, these songs on the whole don’t pack much of a punch.
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May 15, 2013The textures are excellent, the songs are OK, but as a whole, it just doesn't pack the emotional punch of earlier outings.
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Nov 7, 2013A hypnotic album, but one that never quite awakens to its purpose.