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SHAPES AND SIZES - Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner
| PitchFork | | Shapes and Sizes carried a heavy but unlikely burden on their self-titled debut album: They had too many melodies, and their best ones were lost in the bustle. Each song set off in numerous directions, leaving the listener with that muddled feeling of flipping through too many channels, opening too many IM windows, or leaving bookmarks in too many books....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Though Shapes and Sizes only run four deep, their sonics bear all the trademarks of the nu-tribalism that’s been shuffled about for the past five years, tried on by all types with varying results. The general consensus: albums as big organic pow-wows, with wagon loads of instruments, played with big eyes and shaky hands and produced in crackling barnyard textures; ...full text |
| | Treble | | Remember looking into a kaleidoscope as a child? How the backlit flecks of multi-colored plastic churning along that mirrored surface would fill you with a sense of wonder, because, at the time, you had no idea how it worked. Like a Rorschach test for fragile, innocent minds, recent Montreal transplants (via Vancouver) Shapes & Sizes subscribe to such an aesthetic, rarely producing expected song structures, but often invoking a sense of childlike wide-eyed wonder with their wildly creative, sometimes bizarre, always entertaining music....full text |
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