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aspect. An example is the "slow, wistful bliss" of "Candy Shoppe," a track with an atmosphere set by McGuire's guitar sounds and numerous synthesizer textures present in the background. The guitar also makes up a lot of space on "The Cycle of Abuse" until "cloudy drones" and groan voice whispers come
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and synthesized classical music, consisting of slightly cheesy-sounding keyboard arpeggiations," "waveform generators," and "sweet-and-sour analog synth sounds." He called some of the record's material, including "Candy Shoppe," a more enthusiastic version of the works of
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As Miller described "Genetic," "It opens with a pulsating analog synth melody and ascendant vocals that sound like the closing hymn from a much distant church—resounding, rejoicing and mourning all at once—before McGuire's slippery,
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Songs like the rough-feeling "Summerdata," which Miller described as "a snowy blast of static like bits of data forging sound," recall the same
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styles that were a part of their previous albums. However, in the words of journalist Derek Miller, it is much more "sharp", concise and
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Pastoral melodies gurgle from orderly banks of synths, while tracks like 'Genetic' highlight Mark McGuire's otherworldly guitar shimmer.
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placed it at number 36 on its list of "The Top 50 Albums of 2010", and number 139 on its list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s".
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styles that were on the group's previous works. Anderson called it "intensely involving despite being largely arrhythmic."
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and frantic guitars, the songs "Double Helix" and the title track were compared by Miller to the works of
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Miller noted McGuire guitar work to be the focal point of the record's
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experimentation." He compared the album's soundscape to that of 1970s
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Studio album
Emeralds
Genre
Ambient
new-age
synthpop
Label
Editions Mego
Emeralds
Just to Feel Anything
AnyDecentMusic?
AllMusic
Drowned in Sound
Fact
Pitchfork
PopMatters
Resident Advisor
Uncut
Emeralds
7-inch
singles
Pitchfork
new age
krautrock
kosmische
pop music
Allmusic
ambient music
avant-garde

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