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- Summary: The Toronto lo-fi indie-rockers, led by Will Oldham-esque singer-songwriter Aaron Riches, make their Sanctuary debut with this third album.
- Record Label: Sanctuary
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 9
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Mixed: 5 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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A powerfully emotional and poignant album that reclaims the American spiritual from the depths of the irrelevant past and rewrites it for the post-modern age.
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Riches' voice can still sound a bit flat on some tracks, but his vocal and lyrical abilities have grown by leaps and bounds.
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Little Heart's Ease does deliver more of the dark but oddly jaunty songwriting that made Royal City's previous album noteworthy.
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For the first time it sounds like Royal City is stuck.
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Royal City don't have the arresting lyrics or delivery of the best Palace songs, nor is Little Heart's Ease the equal of genre-champ Magnolia Electric Company, but, as Riches might put it, there's some sparkles in the rough.
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Little Heart's Ease is a respectable effort - just not by Royal City standards.
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Too often, the new record substitutes weighty, Biblical language for true heft.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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David_Aug 5, 2004The first three tracks are great, as are some of the other songs... but something's not quite right.
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