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SHAPES AND SIZES - Shapes And Sizes
| Treble | | Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce once said that the one book he took to the Korean War MASH unit was the dictionary, because every other book was inside. Then, of course, there's the old adage about the million monkeys at a million typewriters story, and how eventually, though it might take millions of years, one of those monkeys would randomly write or reproduce the great American novel. Further still, you have the idea that there are only a limited number of notes on a scale or chords that one can play, and so, imitation and repetition are inevitable....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Shapes and Sizes is an appropriate name for this British Columbia outfit, given the members' propensity to dabble in as many genres as a band can effectively in ten songs. Opener "Islands Gone Bad" offers a fair introduction to what can be expected from the album: The first few verses are sung by Rory Seydel, who gives the impression Shapes and Sizes is a melancholy Canadian band, then Caila Thompson-Hinant speeds up the second half of the track with a squealing rant that begins "I like eating fruit off of trees," and then it dissolves into a team chant of "Islands gone bad!"...full text |
| | Popmatters | | Shapes and Sizes have got to be prepared for the Fiery Furnaces/Architecture in Helsinki comparisons. Like Fiery Furnaces, they write quirky indie rock that stops mid-stream only to go off in a truly different direction. Like Architecture in Helsinki, they have a theatrical indie-pop sensibility that results in songs that completely change character midway-through....full text |
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