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MemoryhouseThe Slideshow Effect69 Based on 13 reviews 2012 Ranking: #144 / 227
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The Slideshow Effect blends much that has gone before, and serves up a freshly defined new act that has potential for popular success.
Too often the album floats by in a wash of grays that almost cries for more pretentious conceptualism, if for no other reason than to liven things up.
Despite the leaps and bounds that this effort makes songwriting wise, it just feels less unique than it did before.
The Slideshow Effect is a more polished product with generally more variety in style throughout.
They’re a strong band musically, and The Slideshow Effect is a good, well put together piece of work which creeps up on you slowly.
On The Slideshow Effect, Memoryhouse strips away the full production, lets the vocals rise to the front, and lets their songs do the talking.
they are not necessarily bringing us to a different world, but casting a radiance on the world we already know, exploring a sense of wonder about the everyday.
Memoryhouse have a ways to go before they're creating music with as much melodic power or depth of feeling as their dream-pop contemporaries.
this is an album that you might want to really like, but ultimately you’ll probably feel a bit cold and aloof at the general lack of variance in the band’s sound.
Insipid marshmallow post-rock that occasionally sniffs in the direction of Yuck or Mogwai, but mostly glowers in a dismally cloying, precious nostalgia.
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RATINGS
| 80 | musicOMH [src ] |
| 75 | A.V. Club [src] |
| 74 | Beats Per Minute [src] |
| 70 | Consequence of Sound [src] |
| 70 | Drowned in Sound [src] |
| 70 | No Ripcord [src] |
| 70 | Spin [src] |
| 70 | The 405 [src] |
| 70 | Under The Radar [src] |
| 66 | Pitchfork [src] |
| 60 | PopMatters [src] |
| 60 | Tiny Mix Tapes [src] |
| 30 | NME [src] |
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