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| Musicomh |
 Friend And Foe represents Menomena's first release in the UK for those willing to dig a little for their music: it actually finds the band on their third album. Their first release was on a tiny Portland label, whilst their second consisted mainly of instrumental pieces written for a modern dance performance. Avant Garde is the term that is currently being used to describe the band. If that puts you off, remember that labels are not always correct....full text |
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| Stylusmagazine |
| Having spent a fair amount of time huddled under Portland’s late-year cloak in the past few months, I understand how the city—fair of roses and rain—birthed a band like Menomena. It’s a place for youth, younger than you remember ever being, and a smug swath of neon against grainy, industrial terrains. It inherits shaggy American Apparel cynics—every coffee house youth hooded and lost to you—out of swashbucklers and Shanghai pasts, much the way Menomena tangles itself in so much yore and yesterday—from the Beach Boys to Joy Division, the Flaming Lips to early-era Radiohead—in order to create something willfully idiosyncratic, and, as of 2003, downright novel against the hovel....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
| With Menomena, you always get a total package. Their first album, 2003's I Am the Fun Blame Monster, came with a hand-assembled flip book, complete with moving anagrams. The vinyl edition took the packaging a step further: It folded up into an origami monster with a moving mouth. Their second outing, a minimalist ballet score cutely titled Under an Hour, came in a stark, mostly white container that looked a lot like the music it contained. And Friend and Foe, their third, has possibly the most brilliantly executed cover art of the decade....full text |
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