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As much as I want to enjoy the album, it seems insistent on holding me at arm’s length.

It’s nothing particularly new, but it is remarkably solid, and they keep things refreshing and poignant.

It’s something pleasant and pretty to put on when you’re not looking for music that demands much attention.

I’m left curious as to where they might go from here.

Melodium attempts to take purely electronic arrangements and make them sound organic and natural.

Melodium attempts to take purely electronic arrangements and make them sound organic and natural.

The word pleasant sums up this CD quite nicely — and I mean that in every good way imaginable.

It’s like Labradford remixing Seefeel remixing… Labradford!

As slow and mellow an album as you’re likely to hear all year.

Listening to the album reveals a kind of dark electronic pop that now sounds ten years out of time.

I’m flabbergasted as to how something like this made it out the door without someone crying foul.

Clocking in at half an hour, it’s the perfect length and a good introduction for a promising new band.

In a way, it’s nice and refreshing to hear something so simple, unpretentious, and as honest as Maduro.

Clocking in at just over 26 minutes, the 6 songs on Flaxen represent some of the finest shoegazer/dreampop I’ve heard in God knows how long.

More focused and concise then their debut, but still as out there as you’d expect from cLOUDDEAD.

North Via manages to separate themselves from many of the post-rock/instrumental bands that would normally be considered their peers.

Every time I put on the album, I find myself coming under its spell just as surely as when I first listened to it.

From the very first delicate wisps of sound to the last atmospheric that fades over the horizon, The North Shore rarely disappoints.

One of the most original and compelling albums, all artistic obscurity and nonsensical double-speak aside, that I’ve heard in a long time.

With his humility and subtlety, Stevens gets it right where so much of the “praise and worship” music out there gets it so very wrong so much of the time.