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Autumdivers Album Reviews 3out of 5
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Autumdivers

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Clearly New York's Autumdivers are going places. A growing reputation on the live circuit and compilation appearances alongside Elbow certainly suggest a bright future. Their second album, meanwhile, is assured and confident; forged on a past in shoegazing influences but Gregory Paul and co. have refined their sound to embrace epic rock influences such as Doves. In the beginning the offerings are excellent; 'Turnaround' and 'I Still Feel' are melancholic yet feelgood and 'Amend' is achingly brilliant, all three tracks held aloft by some fine chiming guitar work. Proceedings continue for a while in pleasant jangly fashion but - as is often the case with bands who want to be "epic" - the album is twenty or even thirty minutes too long. 'Inasmuch' verges on dirge territory and the finale 'Star-Crossed' - all seventeen minutes of it - would make more sense in a live environment (as men in grey overcoats leave for the cold night air), but as the album send-off its appearance is initially interesting but eventually tedious. Better to have ended with the dark acoustics of 'Last'. As it is for their immediacy that Autumdivers should be praised; it's only when they exceed the five-minute mark on their songs that events go awry.
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  Track Listing
01 Intro
02 Turnaround
Standout Track Amend
04 I Still Feel
05 Place To Call Your Own
06 Disappearing Act
07 Walkaway
08 Inasmuch
09 Dopamine Lost
10 Get Me Out
11 Sisyphus
12 Last
13 Star Crossed

Standout Track = Standout Track

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Doves - Lost Souls, The Last Broadcast, Some Cities
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