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The WireImagine cLOUDDEAD jamming with Wilco, with David Lynch producing, and you're only halfway there. [#257, p.70]
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Easily the most adventurous work in the Fog catalog yet.
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UrbA wonderful, fascinating record. [May 2005, p.85]
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Uncut[Broder's] bodged tracks are the equivalent of Napoleon Dynamite's hybrid animal, the "liger", with beats that kick like a flogged mule. [Jun 2005, p.114]
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MojoBy the time the album ends in a full-on industrial free-jazz freakout you'll either be totally lost or suspecting this man might be a genius. [Jun 2005, p.97]
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Where there was previously a plethora of cuts, glitches, and turntable sounds, there are now indie pop hooks with an underlying aesthetic of experimentation.
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Q MagazineWhen it all gels, you can forgive the occasional bout of navel-gazing self-indulgence. [Jun 2005, p.120]
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Occasionally, you might wish for a more generous-sounding lead vocal or concise song structure, but 10th Avenue Freakout is populated with stimulating, rather than easily accessible, music.
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Too many songs proceed from point A to B with little variation or depth. Those tracks seem to equivocate between the collagist Fog and the pop Fog, reconciling their tensions instead of exploiting them.
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Freakout is a struggle between balance and shambles; the compositions constantly wobble beneath a gravity that threatens to bring them down for good and to render Broder’s brain inane for all time.
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The musical missteps wouldn’t be so bad if Broder’s voice didn’t often betray him.
User score distribution:
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thomastMay 9, 2005
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BrentSApr 28, 2005my favorite fog album/my favorite album this year so far