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Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
Released: 15/10/2012
Mexican Summer
Tender New Signs is what a thought-out studio collaboration between Kevin Shields and Patti Smith might sound like. The San Francisco-based duo might take their vocalist’s name, but it’s Rex Shelveton’s dreamy guitar sound that’s the secret weapon here, as the pair offer a second record of ethereal shoegaze that’s very much a continuation of 2010 debut The Waves.
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80 %
Drowned In Sound“Elegant and flowing...” There's a tentative urge to return to the start almost immediately and repeat the listening process once more. And if there's any greater recommendation for giving Tender New Signs a spin then please, be my guest...
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70 %
Dusted Magazine“A very bright and clear album...” Tamaryn’s voice is suitably fragile and dreamlike, rather similar to Alison Shaw of Cranes, subsumed into the depths of the mix until it becomes a sort of ghostly lament...
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70 %
Clash Music“This record is one of pure surrealism...” The only problem here is that the genre is taken to the extreme, and can blend together to the point where the album seems like one massive track...
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60%
The Line of Best Fit“There’s very little to differentiate it from The Waves...” Wears its goth influences on its sleeve and presents a marginal cleaning up of their sound. Throughout Tamaryn sings about flowers, petals and seeds – fertile metaphorical territory, clearly – in serious, myopic detail...
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60%
NME“Like their 2010 debut 'The Waves', it's cinematic, dramatic...” It has vocals so indistinct that Tamaryn (the singer whose band this is) could just be coo-ing "turn up the smoke machine" over and over again...
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75 %
Pitchfork“Different, further away than the abrasive ardor of their first album...” Makes the listener work a little harder within Tamaryn's framework, but it rewards as much, if not more, than the walls of noise threatening to hem them in just a few years ago...
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80 %
allmusic“The duo sounds more genuine than many of its contemporaries...” Tender New Signs is most intriguing when Tamaryn don't follow the shoegaze playbook quite so closely. "I'm Gone" opens the album with Tamaryn's vocals lost in a whorl of Shelverton's guitars...
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