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| 4.0 excellent | ajcollins15 | November 9th 23 |
I am breaking my rule here by reviewing this Family Dynamics one and only release. ?Service? was originally composed and bootleg released way back in late 2012. However, the band was extremely obscure and the bootleg copy became lost to time. 11 years later someone has put ?Service? onto streaming services and Bandcamp for purchasing. Family Dynamics was a ?supergroup? created by the original drummer of At the Drive-In. Much of this album sits in an Avant-garde style of folk music akin to that of Ryan?s other obscure band ?Stars Like Fleas?. Right from the opening strums of ?Questions (Invocation),? you can sense the huge amount of Fleet Foxes' influence this album took. This album is equally abstract and mystical as it is warm and cozy. ?Service? swims in its own atmosphere much like many famous Swans records. But it also isn?t afraid to add textured freak folk melodies here and there. The band really just let it fly on this album and it sure is a magical listen from front to back. We will never know what could have been, but at least we got to see something as unique as this be released.
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| 4.5 superb | Sowing STAFF | October 29th 23 |
Eerie, powerful, and alluring. One of my favorite under-a-rock discoveries of 2023.
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| 3.0 good | kodama | December 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | December 20th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | November 2nd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Slex | October 29th 23 |
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