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Based on 10 reviews
2025 Ratings: #285 / 657
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Based on 171 ratings
May 30, 2025 / Release Date
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The quintet merge their soft rock and folk pop sensibilities in a sampler which yields a collection of rap-inspired tunes that, amidst boxy loops and conversational fragments, relocate the band’s airy sound.
ferb
54

Generally not my type of music but surpringly left with a few tracks.
Dance, Sleeping, Strange, Havana and Dress are great.

HadleyInc
84

Extremely interesting sample usage

RyInTheSky
75

I really do love Andy Shauf's voice and the sound worked well with it.

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tawnuskgrevy
92

A masterwork of tight, clean production, 2 is an album of memories cast in porcelain. Andy Shauf’s delicate, deliberate vocals are enchanting, affecting, calm yet unsteady at the same time, the way a robot might sing a nursery rhyme to an unfamiliar child.

The record is flooded in vintage technicolor by samples from various Golden Age films: Streetwise Mid-Atlantic film noir banter, restrained Hays Code romance, all accompanied by grainy string-orchestral chinoiserie and occasional ... read more

Smcleish1
75

Real good.

63

무난한 인디 앨범이에요. 따뜻한 포크 음악에 재즈의 변칙성을 첨가한 Chamber Pop이었어요. 개인적으로 Listen2Me라는 트랙이 꽤 괜찮았어요. 제가 카페를 차린다면 이런 느낌의 노래들을 여럿 틀고 싶을 것 같아요. 저를 별로 쪼이지 않는 노동요 재질의 노래들이 많았어요.

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Track List

1Dance
2:38
83
2Sleeping
2:26
83
3Say It
4:02
77
4Listen2me
2:44
73
5Quitealot2
0:28
63
6Strange
3:16
80
7Havana
0:59
64
8Yvonne
2:13
77
9Deadhand
3:32
79
10True
0:35
65
11Round&round
2:14
76
12Dress
3:14
73
13Wings
4:07
75
14Serious
2:41
69
15Again&
1:30
66
Total Length: 36 minutes

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