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Title: Candy-Coated Melancholy
Review: A soundscape built from vintage instrumentation with nods (e.g. minimal drum machine beats and a charmingly postmodern, self-mocking lyrical sense) to modernity. A popular combination these days, to be sure, but this is a stellar manifestation of the trend. The dusky, moody harmonies of Here Comes Winter call to mind a slow dance in taffetta in a humid high school gym circa 1956. Noon's transmittal-from-a-distant-star vocals ground the album in spooky, lonesome beauty.
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