Learning | Loppylugs

Submitted by the panel on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

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Artist:

Perfume Genius

album-ID:

a_81

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 010

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Learning*Lookout, Lookout*Mr Peterson*Gay Angels*You Won’t B Here*Write To Your Brother*No Problem*When*Perry*Never Did

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_30

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Spotify-URL:

1b8PuvvNxi884DjXnxIFt4

Grooveshark-URL:

Learning/4688243

Short-title:

learning

nominator-ID:

u_43

Meeting-date:

Friday, 30 July 2010

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

learning/perfume-genius

Discogs-URL:

Perfume-Genius-Learning/master/264975

Allmusic-URL:

learning-mw0001993642

BBC-URL:

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73

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Learning Curve

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7-8

The sound is a very starkly arranged, largely just echoey piano with treated vocals and the occasional keyboard based legato single notes. It's a very simple approach – brave and ambitious but you've got to be a most excellent songwriter to get away with that over the entirety of even a short album, like this one. Some of the opening songs indeed are moving and effective, Mr Peterson particularly so. After a while, though, there isn't really the quality or variety to hold you, so you come away from it somewhat distracted and indifferent, which is a shame as the high points on here are very refreshing, touching and nicely conceived.
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Smells like gay sprit

3

For an album of such low ambitions, it works pretty well. You can't deny the guy writes with his heart on his sleeve, and the honesty is quite winning.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Where's the drums?

The sound is pretty much the same throughout the album (piano and vocals via effects), and I find it a bit one dimensional and shallow. The lyrics, I'm told, are far from shallow... but that just ain't my thing.