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| Avclub |
 A trend has formed in indie-rock lately: albums that start with an epic song that builds slowly and dramatically to a nearly orchestral crescendo. The intent, it seems, is to tell the listener, "Hey, this is some epic, dramatic shit we've got up in here!" Few discs actually keep that promise, which makes it all the more forehead-slapping that DeVotchKa hits the ground running, kicking, yelping, and dancing with "Basso Profundo," the first track on its new A Mad And Faithful Telling. Of course, DeVotchKa has never been strictly an indie-rock act. Fluttering around the genre's fringes—as well as the outer limits of everything from mariachi to gypsy folk—the band has bent its instrumental eclecticism into pulsing, swaying songs that unfold like wildflowers....full text |
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| Austinchronicle |
| The Digital Age has sparked the globalization of indie pop, heard in everything from Beirut and Gogol Bordello to Vampire Weekend and M.I.A. Not since Doug Sahm's Texas Tornados, however, has an act so uniquely coined its own multicultural currency as Denver's Devotchka. A Mad & Faithful Telling, the quartet's Anti- debut and first full-length since producing the Grammy-nominated score to Little Miss Sunshine, unsheathes a musical realm without boundaries, beginning with opener "Basso Profundo," which blends Eastern European folk with Morricone-style spaghetti Western noir for Cirque du Soleil acrobatics....full text |
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| Spin |
| DeVotchKa gained mainstream exposure in 2006 via their Grammy-nominated score for Little Miss Sunshine, but the Denver band still cavort like daffy outsiders on their stirring fifth album, a sultry brew of Gypsy, Mexican, and pop ingredients that's adorably silly and unexpectedly moving. A dizzy crooner in the mode of Andrew Bird and Rufus Wainwright, ringmaster Nick Urata celebrates heartbreak, desire, and other grand themes, driven by a craving for attention and the urge to put on a big show. If the itchy "Head Honcho" doesn't grab you, you're lost....full text |
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