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| | Binding: | MP3 Download | | Studio: | VANGUARD | | Release Date: | September 12, 2006 | | Genre: | pop-music | | Sales Rank: | 5,750th |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 19 reviews)
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Snoring Sleeepy Music by Brian M. Patchett (Nevada)  3 Stars
January 16, 2009
I have really enjoyed Carbon Leaf's music for a while now. However, this is uncreative sleepy music for the most part. I miss the energy of previous albums. They seem to have lost their roots and core sound with this album. Lets hope they find their Celtic, Blue Grass and Rock selves again in the next effort. Check out previous releases such as "5 Alive", "Echo Echo" or even earlier material.
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Whew! by Bill Pearson (Philadelphia, PA)  5 Stars
December 14, 2007
We saw Carbon Leaf for the second time last night at World Cafe Live in Philly. They performed some songs that they haven't done in a while as well as their standards.
When they finished singing "The War Is In Color", a friend turned to me and said "That song alone was worth the price of the tickets." It's also worth the price of this album. It's an astounding, incredibly powerful song--some of their best lyric writing--and that's saying something.
But there is lots more to enjoy on this album. It's not "Indian Summer"; it's different, and that's fine. I probably play "Indian Summer" more, but I'm glad I know this album too.
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A little dissapointing, only because I expected so much by J. Claridge (Chicago) 3 Stars
December 13, 2007
After "Indian Summer", I think I let myself expect too much. This is a good album, but it feels like they were in a bland mood the day they recorded it in the studio. The vocals are uninspiring, as are the rest of the instruments and the band's performance as a whole. They also kinda overdid the voice harmonizing effect, or whatever it is, effectively wearing it out (instead of just using it during certain choruses for max effect.) Maybe that's a production / sampling fault, not sure.
There's 2-3 songs on here that stand out from the others, and I find myself skipping the other songs on the CD to get to them. (That never happens when I put "Indian Summer" in!)
I really wanted to love this album - I was very excited to buy it - but it's really just OK. I've followed these guys since they were just a local band struggling to get radio play time on DC101. After owning "Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat" for 2 months and listening to it maybe 10 times, it's getting cycled out of my CD-holding sun visor in the car (where "Indian Summer" still remains).
I do hope that they can find whatever magic they had with "Indian Summer" and rekindle that for their next release.
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Understated Beauty by RockAboveAllElse (Denver, CO)  4 Stars
October 31, 2007
This is a really good folk-rock album. Somewhere in between Pub Rock and The Gin Glossoms, there is Carbon Leaf. Strong catchy songwritng with a pop sensibility, delivered in an unpretentious way. Cool stuff. Makes me think of Fall and Springtime, James Joyce and Guiness.
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Good not great by M. Barone (Arlington, VA) 4 Stars
July 27, 2007
I struggled with whether to give this 3 stars or 4, but several stand out songs make this worth the purchase. While this CD isn't quite up to par with Indian Summer or 5 Alive (if you like Live CD's) Love, Loss, Hope Repeat, delivers in the title track along with a few other gems.
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