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| PitchFork |
The Curtains have gone from zygotes to embryos. But no sex organs yet-- Chris Cohen, the band's only permanent member, shares the seasick, stop-and-go pop and guileless, virginal voice of Asthmatic Kitty label mates Half-Handed Cloud, Shapes and Sizes, and Sufjan Stevens. In the Curtains' press photos, Cohen strikes a shy pose, shoulders curled in, with his eyes unable to lock with the camera's-- hand him a banjo and it's one of Stevens' press photos....full text |
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| TinyMixTapes |
| It's easy to get caught up in the momentum of a staggering melody and let yourself be swept away. But when you touch back on ground again, what is left? This is often the problem with pop, a persuasion The Curtains belong to despite several hints to the contrary: It will rouse you from the roost while it's playing, but once the record is through spinning, you're left with the realization that you were conned; you were nefariously duped into liking a weak entity for its tonal window dressing....full text |
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| Treble |
| As far as weird goes, few bands are capable of outdoing Deerhoof. At times painfully noisy and abrasive, at others, innocently childlike, and somewhere in-between, just plain rockin', with plenty of bizarre time signatures interrupting otherwise catchy tunes. However, when guitarist Chris Cohen left the band to work on his own project, Curtains, he clearly had it in mind to maintain that level of weird, albeit in almost a completely different way, primarily by using lots of space and silence to do the speaking where noise otherwise would have taken central stage. But they're still, and I don't feel like an idiot for saying so, very weird....full text |
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