A pristinely preserved book with an oddly humble origin story is a dead giveaway.
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Webster Middle and High School in Tulsa is a pristinely maintained Art Deco castle.
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The Sursock is one of very few heritage buildings in Beirut that has been pristinely preserved.
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When the 8K video is "down-rezzed" to 4K, each 35-megapixel frame remains pristinely detailed.
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However perfect their works, they are not interested in the aesthetics of flawless beauty, pristinely presented.
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These soft-bodied specimens typically don't fossilize well, but the ones he collected were pristinely preserved.
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Later this year, the monumental birthday present will be unwrapped to reveal a pristinely restored facade.
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We can just imagine the pristinely set table with a (insert flower we've never heard of) centerpiece.
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I had traveled all day to reach Richmond, and these pristinely basic quarters were the main event.
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Words like zabiha or halal seem so pristinely sacred, like eternal kernels of wisdom passed from our ancestors.
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Though they are designed to look pristinely high-gloss forever, time and dirt take their toll on most.
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Colette Dike, founder and editor-in-chief of Food Deco, recently posted a photograph of a pristinely pitless avocado.
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Outside, on the pristinely manicured church lawn, Garrett Doucet, a parishioner and organizer of the vigil, welcomed people inside.
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His works are such pristinely shot, immaculately conceived meditations on the relationship between space and humanity they're like visual homilies.
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And, occasionally, he opted for deep-focus clarity, letting everything in his sonic frame gleam with pristinely arranged dramatic purpose.
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So often, stories are left out there like singular, pristinely drawn objects that could only ever have existed one way.
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The book is a lyrical and pristinely disturbing recounting of that time, and how it awoke within her a calling.
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His radiant falsetto imperceptibly dims into catacombs of vocal fry, or sails out and wavers as pristinely as a chime.
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This kind of pristinely gross black metal punk is raw, ugly, and rare, and Utzalu are some of its reigning monarchs.
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I made her a gin and tonic and set out a dish of pristinely stacked Pringles — sour-cream-and-onion flavor.
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"It is not because Pusey's work is any less groundbreaking, pristinely executed, or formally and conceptually evocative," she said by email.
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The burger and fries have remained pristinely preserved and mold-free for over 10 years, seemingly showing no signs of decay.
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Instagrammed food has progressed from shitty flash-on photos in restaurants to pristinely arranged healthful bowls, always— always—photographed from above.
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This is, after all, the unmistakable voice of Meredith Blake, the blue-eyed, blond-haired, pristinely dressed antagonist of The Parent Trap.
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Sheltered from wind, the water was glassy, and under a solidly gray sky it was absolutely black, pristinely black, like outer space.
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There is also an Armenian cathedral in Baku with more than 85033,000 ancient Armenian books that the Azerbaijan government is maintaining pristinely.
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Her eyelids are lined with pristinely applied glitter and her usual wash of blue hair has been replaced by a sleek dark brown.
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His tracks for this album, featuring Tim Young's reverb-laden electric guitar, move Cash from Leventhal's pristinely rootsy Americana into moodier, noirish realms.
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The start of the "Turangalîla I" section placed clarinet, ondes, double bass and bells pristinely atop one another, as if with silver tweezers.
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Granted, it may be pristinely executed, but when you're only one person staring down a full project load, it can be a little disheartening.
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The pomp and swagger are at odds with his avatar: a Snapchat Boo-R code, featuring nothing but a set of pristinely maintained teeth.
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The best holishkes are pristinely wrapped cabbage packages in a thick, ruby red sauce that tastes so sweet you know it's terrible for you.
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But Asdrubal Cabrera, pinch-hitting for Hansel Robles, who had replaced Syndergaard, struck out looking on a fastball pristinely placed on the inside corner.
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His sizable, ovoid frame gives him a commanding presence in any room, and his pristinely bald head gives his already piercing eyes more prominence.
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They are set within pristinely clear acrylic fields that mimic fine art photo matting with an outer frame of gleaming copper that mirrors the plates.
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The tiny chocolates are pristinely displayed like beautiful pieces of jewelry, while the nougats, caramels and sugared cubes of pure, concentrated fruit are equally sublime.
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You see the idyllic: Terence Gower's "Kitchen I & II" (2004) a photographic diptych of a pristinely antiseptic kitchen with new appliances and a dutiful housewife.
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I have an iPhone 6S Plus and Nexus 6P sitting pristinely untouched in a drawer simply because I value the mobile aspect of phones most highly.
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Let's get over the idea that vegetables have to be served pristinely, steamed delicately and plated spartanly with "just a touch" of olive oil and salt.
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I wandered over to Chase Park, a small but pristinely landscaped green space in the center of town, right across the street from the post office.
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Bennett's work brings together two divergent strains – the pristinely constructed environments of contemporary photographers (James Casebere and Thomas Demand) with the deeply emotional realism of Edward Hopper.
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They drive pristinely kept Toyotas and Nissans, the seats often covered in flowery lace and the doors rigged to open and close automatically, minimizing interactions with customers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Have you ever wanted to throw a piano or screeching cat at Le Corbusier's pristinely white 1931 Villa Savoye in France?
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A decade ago, the waterway coursed pristinely into Indawgyi Lake, but it has since become choked with mud and chemicals from an illegal hydraulic K.I.A. gold mine.
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The search company has spent more than a decade perfecting its software, and in the abstract, Android is now just as pristinely well-conceived as Apple's iOS.
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And when Jesse & Joy, who had earlier performed a pristinely heartbroken version of "Me Soltaste," collected their award for best contemporary pop vocal album, Joy grew teary.
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After 15 minutes of waiting in the lobby, a man walked through the door; tall, of South East Asian descent, pristinely dressed, a gym bag at his side.
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They started the day where the sit-ins began nearly 26 years ago, at a Woolworth's lunch counter pristinely preserved within the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
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The whole time, all I can think about is how many scuffs and stains a child with that much energy must leave all over the pristinely minimalist house.
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In the shot, Midge lounges poolside, pristinely coiffed as ever and wearing a hot pink, vintage-style swimsuit, sun hat and heels as she peruses the pages of Vogue.
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Across its ten pristinely-produced tracks, Xiu Xiu comes off as challenging as ever, equally comfortable pumping out clangorous hellscapes ("Jenny GoGo") as they are glitchy pop-songs ("Wondering").
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Maurizio Cattelan's functional gold toilet "America" (2016) was just another of his pristinely fabricated practical jokes, until Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector gave it geopolitical gravitas.
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Metacritic score: 91 Cold War — a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski — is set in Europe in the early decades of the actual Cold War.
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Each associated discography was sorted and cared for as pristinely as the one before, and a spiderweb graph of clickable links at the bottom of each artist's page showed you related artists.
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Now that we're fully entrenched in selfie culture, while also being fully entrenched in wine and coffee culture, we're always on the hunt for products that can give us pristinely white teeth.
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Cold War was my favorite film at the festival, a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, who was awarded the directing prize for the film.
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The exaltation of "Piano Concerto No. 2" is how the two fit together so that the moments of what you see and what you hear are so pristinely woven they seem nearly inconceivable.
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Some may draw comparisons to its competitor McDonald's, which has maintained a pristinely preserved and mold-free burger on display in Iceland since the last McDonald's restaurant in the country closed in 2009.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Pristinely kept and replete with beautiful objects, the domestic spaces that Becky Suss paints are like photographs in interior design magazines that leave you coveting the lifestyles of strangers.
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Cold War was my favorite film at the Cannes Film Festival in May, a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, who was awarded the directing prize for the film.
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The intense yet immaculate performances, including a shamelessly, pristinely lush "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten," still make as good a case as any for works that in less committed hands can simply fade into the moody background.
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Monday's striking contrasting images — pristinely dressed Israelis and Americans applauding joyfully at the new embassy in Jerusalem while Israeli soldiers fired bullets and tear gas at throngs of Palestinian protesters in Gaza — encapsulated the difficulty of their task.
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Aniston confidently hit the city streets in a simple white tank, ripped and cuffed light-wash jeans (shop a similar look here), pristinely white sneakers (how do you do it, Jen?), and a pair of tinted brown aviator shades.
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Flying over these pristinely calm waters while the distant mountains are reflected below you just might be the most relaxing thing you ever do—until you remember you're going to need to find a dry place to land.[YouTube]
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It's a surprising venture for BuzzFeed, but it's kind of a brilliant one given the immense popularity of its Tasty videos — those top-down, pristinely organized cooking videos that you've inevitably come across while skimming through your Facebook feed.
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When you want something that won't spoil your hair, weight and simplicity of design are two of the overriding factors, and the MrSpeakers Aeons are lighter and more streamlined than anything else that sounds as pristinely good as they do.
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Release date: December 21 Cold War — a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski — was my favorite film at Cannes (where it premiered earlier this year), and it easily won hearts at Toronto as well.
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Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would stump for Brent Welder, a progressive candidate running in Kansas's 3rd Congressional District, a young woman wearing a pristinely white "Ocasio-Cortez" T-shirt fielded questions from the people in line around her.
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Cold War — a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy from Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski — was my favorite film at Cannes (where it premiered earlier this year), and it easily won hearts during the fall festival season as well.
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I lightly trace its bare, grey concrete walls with my fingers as I go through to the living area where Healy is waiting, wearing a faded black Fugazi t-shirt, pristinely pressed cream flares and a necklace that looks like a bike chain.
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Finally, Saks Afridi has some pristinely lovely photographs and a hanging minaret that anchor an elaborate story (told through different media platforms) of how alien creatures in wondrous vehicles came to the planet with good in one hand and evil in the other.
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It's a decade- and continent-spanning, pristinely shot romantic tragedy set in Europe in the early decades of the actual Cold War, balancing its captivating lead characters and their fiery love with the grand sweep of the places and times they find themselves in.
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O.W. camp, he and other American soldiers captured at the Battle of the Bulge, before being shipped eastward by train, were confronted by a smoldering hellscape where the Saxon capital had stood, its baroque architecture until now pristinely untouched by the wrecking hand of war.
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As she puts the finishing touches on her outfit and starts arranging the cushions brought by her husband from home on her bed's pristinely smooth surface, I drag my sweaty self out from under the three, four, five blankets that fail to keep me feeling warm through the night.
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It's easy to see that the Cranbrook of today is similar to that of yesteryear: the grounds remain pristinely manicured, people walk across the campus in relatively muted conversation, and the Saarinen House, which the elder architect designed for his family, remains a vital part of the educational community.
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Built around the kind of plump, Italo-tinged bassline that positively drips with unbridled emotion, a piano line so pristinely perfect that it sounds like it was carved from the finest marble, and an unmistakably haunting vocal, it could soundtrack the ending to best film you've never seen.
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The film is laugh-out-loud funny, an astute blend of humanity and absurdity, thrilling until its final depraved moments, a pristinely shot modern architectural feast for the eyes, a razor-sharp socio-economic critique, and a cryptic operatic drama...Everything is quickly and sharply edited, teeming with impressive, geometric cinematography.
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Stoner Superlative: Most likely to hog a joint to tell a story Best Strain: New York City Diesel (60% sativa-dominant hybrid) Worst Strain: schwag (shitty weed) Best Way to Get High: A pristinely rolled joint Best High Activity: Host a dinner party Recommended Product: Kush Queen CBD Lit Kit or the House of Puff Lit Kit
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With the exception of the wines, which generally come from small producers elsewhere in Europe, everything that Ora serves, from a sparkling hard cider the color of spun gold that inaugurates the meal to the rosemary-scented crumble topped with whey ice cream and a disk of local chocolate that ends it, is pristinely, gloriously Finnish. Ora. Orarestaurant.
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Skin care is about having pristinely clear pores and perfect porcelain skin tone, and while women en masse are not stupid or bad for aspiring to those goals (hate the game, not the player, etc.), it's undeniable that setting those goals for women has made a lot of rich white men a whole lot of money.
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We are first introduced to Prince N'Jobu—played pristinely by Sterling K. Brown, he's a Wakandan spy radicalized from his time living in the US—who has provided intel to Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), a rogue black market dealer, on how to secure vibranium, the meteoric ore native to Wakanda that is the life source to the nation's technological prosperity.
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At Cafe Farohar, the food was startlingly fresh: scrambled eggs vivid with green garlic uprooted from the backyard; aleti paleti, an herb-strewn sauté of chicken livers, kidneys and lungs; and a glass of pristinely sour yogurt to be mixed with sev: skinny, crunchy strands of chickpea flour tossed with raisins and charoli, dusted in sugar and cardamom and given a flicker of rose water, scent deepening into flavor.
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Kemily wears a Forver21 bodysuit, her own denim jacket, Guess bermuda shorts, and Shoptiques lucite booties From there, I, I mean Kemily, squeezed into my first bodysuit and double denim ensemble, feeling very Kim K in a pair of lucite boots that my clammy feet quickly made opaque with sweat causing me to wonder how these ladies manage to wear their plastic Yeezy heels day-in and day-out and keep them so pristinely clear.
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In 2016 the film was digitally restored. The newest version was highly praised by The Independent who called it "The most lyrical war movie ever made pristinely restored".
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The first clerk of Session, John Munn, remained at this post for 25 years. The early records of the church were pristinely maintained by John Munn's fastidious attention to detail.
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Like Jennsen, Owen is pristinely ungifted, meaning immune and invisible to magic. Arriving in the Bandakar lands, he finds them stunted intellectually and culturally, embracing a philosophy of aggressive passivity, allowing themselves to be dominated entirely by the Order. Given their complete lack of ability to do violence, Owen brought Richard, believing he could drive the Order away. Richard discovers that the Bandakar are the long lost descendants of the House of Rahl's pristinely ungifted children, banished across the boundaries to the Old World three thousand years ago.
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Patterns, Ferretti To Open In Soho, The New York Times, June 2, 1998, pg. B9. The store was designed by Manhattan architect David Ling. It is a pristinely white shop. Ferretti signed a licensing deal with Procter & Gamble for a fragrance line in 2000.
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They are deeply satisfying and necessarily inconclusive. And they are pristinely beautiful without ever being precious. Writers and musicians have explored the concept of duende, which might in English translate to a kind of existential blues. Smith is not interested in sadness, per se.
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In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau felt the album had a "generalized gospel yearning", and a lyric sheet and songs in English that would appeal to Americans. In a retrospective review for Allmusic, William Ruhlmann felt the album was "pristinely recorded" and is the band's most accessible album.
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Oba imagines himself as energetic and the possessor of a healthy curiosity. His inquisitive nature manifests itself especially through pleasure in watching things die under his hand. Oba does not know that he, along with Jennsen, is pristinely ungifted and immune to magic. His mother sends him to a nearby sorceress to buy medicine, and, during the purchase, he begins to menace the magic user.
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The I Can't Come collection has been described as "punk at its most pristinely putrid", with Allmusic writer Dave Thompson going on to say "the Snivelling Shits reduced every cliché of the era to as few chords as possible, then spattered them with a stupidity that would have been rank if it wasn't so magnificent".Thompson, Dave "[ I Can't Come Review]", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation Dadomo died in 1997.
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The band began recording in their own Williamsburg garage studio and released their debut The Blam in 2003. PopMatters praised the album's single "Various Disgraces", calling it "a pristinely catchy song" with a "catchy melody sung by a distorted lead vocal over a rock-steady rhythm section and straight-ahead guitars." They also compared tracks in the album to bands such as The Strokes and Foo Fighters. It received 3/5 stars by AllMusic.
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Marshall's Many Mansions, from 1994, exposes the contradiction between the name "Stateway Gardens", and the reality of life there. There is a deceitful cheerfulness permeating the piece, as the landscape is illustrated in full bloom. The exaggeratedly black figures are planting blossoming flowers, the trees are pristinely cut, and everything appears bountiful. But Marshall's black figures, as Michael Kimmelman notes in his New York Times piece, are "stiff and stylized: almost stereotypes".
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A pristinely preserved three-dimensional braincase of Ventastega has been discovered, and closely resembles the braincase of Acanthostega, except Ventastega had a uniquely large and bi-lobed nerve foramen on the anterior face of the prootic, along with a orbit-temporal region immediately dorsal to the basipterygoid processes. Shared features between the two taxa were the shape of the prootic region and its location to the ventral cranial fissure and fenestra vestibuli, along with the basipterygoid processes and laterally open post-temporal fossae.
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Kyle Mullin of Exclaim! commented "Her chemistry with her bandmates, along with the album's producers, is evident. And there's little wonder why — Ruby gleams like a pristinely produced jewel in comparison to Gray's aptly named 2016 LP Stripped, which consisted of raw, overdub free takes for the singer and a small band". Simone Torn of Spill Magazine stated "This album is appropriately called Ruby, because it’s a pure gem. Whoever says music has lost all soul clearly has never heard Gray’s new album".
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The park contains what is now known as Sutter's Mill (site). On 3 May 2012 scientists with the Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute utilized an airship to search the strewn field for the impact scars of kg-sized meteorites, but it is now understood that the high entry speed prevented the survival of meteorites as large as found in the Murchison meteorite fall. Ground-based searches resulted in the additional recovery of two pristinely collected meteorites (SM12 and SM67) for scientific study.
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Achtung Baby received acclaim from critics. Elysa Gardner of Rolling Stone said U2 had "proven that the same penchant for epic musical and verbal gestures that leads many artists to self- parody can, in more inspired hands, fuel the unforgettable fire that defines great rock & roll." The review said that the album, like its predecessor Rattle and Hum, was an attempt by the band to "broaden its musical palette, but this time its ambitions are realized". Bill Wyman from Entertainment Weekly called it a "pristinely produced and surprisingly unpretentious return by one of the most impressive bands in the world".
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'" On Jambands.com, Glenn Alexander said, "On Global Drum Project, [Mickey Hart] and fellow percussionist Zakir Hussain have assembled a group of musicians to make a modern drum record that steers clear of new age's more demure temperaments while harnessing modern technology to expose the music's breathing, pulsing heart. Skirting the boundaries of improvised abandon and honing in on movement, color, and melody, he and eight other world musicians manage to make a 'drum record' sound like so much more." In All About Jazz, Glenn Astarita wrote, "Pristinely recorded, the artists use some of the latest and greatest studio processing techniques to augment the inherent instrumental elements.
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Billboard complimented the song for living up to its title as an invigorating dance track, describing it as a song which "bounces between rhythms with ease" and containing "tempo shifts which seamlessly energize the momentum of the song". It was chosen as the Best K-pop song of 2017 by Billboard critics, with Jeff Benjamin saying that the song is a pristinely produced, dynamic electro-pop gem which celebrates a key moment in the music scene's history. Korea JoongAng Daily describes the song as a "earworm" which will surely be remembered by both fans and casual listeners. It was also chosen by Dazed Digital as one of the 20 best K-Pop songs of 2017.
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"Midnight Sky" has received universal acclaim from music critics. Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone praised the song saying that "the 27-year-old Disney darling-turned-pop provocateur has returned with yet another bold reinvention, looking to the raw arena rock vocals and the pristinely glossy production of the era for her new single". The writer also pointed that Cyrus channeled Stevie Nicks at her solo 80s peak, describing the track as a “Stand Back” 2.0, and added that it is "a Prince-esque come hither full of biting, bewitching heartbreak confidence that Nicks invented". Nina Corcoran of Consequence of Sound classified it as a "flashy synthpop number" stating that is "arguably sleeker than anything Cyrus has released before".
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" Cassie's parts, written by Canadian pop singer Anjulie, are backed up by a guitar line. Artistdirect characterized the song by stating that it "stirs a perfect storm between clever hip hop, potent pop, and soulful acoustic pondering." They detailed its structure: "Minaj lets haters know what they can do via a blunt, brilliant verse before the otherworldly cyber beat funnels into an impressive infectious robotized refrain," continuing that "then, utterly unexpectedly, the track descends into an acoustic strum and Cassie pristinely singing, 'You get high and fuck a bunch of girls and then cry on top of the world.'" The song is about a "pithy kiss-off to men who try to buy love with money and jewels.
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The 2005 album, 20th Century Gospel : From Hymns to Blackwood Brothers Tribute to Christian Country, included contributions from Greenhaw, the Light Crust Doughboys, the Jordanaires, and Nokie Edwards. AllMusic commented that it was "A pristinely recorded and expertly played slice of truly American music, 20th Century Gospel is an uplifting work that resonates with the participants' obvious love of making music." In 2006, in conjunction with the Diamond Anniversary of the Light Crust Doughboys, ASC (America Sejung Corporation) were commissioned to produce a limited edition series of seven fretted musical instruments. In collaboration with Art Greenhaw as technical advisor, these included a banjo, mandolin (with pickup), electric bass, and both hollow and solid-body electric guitars.
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Once in the Old World, a great wizard then placed them in isolation to prevent their ideas from infecting the rest of the world. Using the Bandakar as hostages, Jagang sent them into the Wizard's Keep to rob it, as the pristinely ungifted Bandakar were totally immune to magic. Richard demands to meet their leader and is shocked to discover that the Wise One is merely a blindfolded child indoctrinated in their beliefs, as they believed that innocent children could not lead them astray. After proving through debate that this is nonsensical, Richard is nearly killed by a Bandakar still dedicated to their passive beliefs, and the horrified Bandakar realize that despite their ideology, they are also capable of violence.
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"Midnight Sky" is an uptempo "Prince-esque" disco, pop, synth-pop, electropop and pop rock song with "gritty", "raw" arena rock vocals and "pristinely glossy" production. Written in the key of E minor, it has a tempo of 110 beats per minute, with Cyrus' vocal range spanning from the low note of D3 to the high note of D5. Its lyrics are inspired by Cyrus' divorce from Liam Hemsworth and relationships with Kaitlynn Carter and Cody Simpson, and show the singer "tak[ing] back her narrative" and being confident in herself. She also revealed in an interview in Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast that her desire was for the song to be an anthem that normalized pansexuality and provided visibility for those living in fear of rejection over their authentic selves.
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" He criticized the instrumentals for being "weirdly detached, uncanny-valley version[s]" of these styles: "[Future Brown's] relationship to both these genres and the guest appearances brought into the fold is a top-down one rather than ground-level; no wonder these beats sound so pristinely lofty juxtaposed with their vocals." He also battered the quartet for using art school-level ideas to gain a huge amount of attention from the press, given that the LP's featured artists had been receiving far less popularity: " This is both telling with regards to issues of class and privilege, and also an immense shame. [...] Future Brown has failed to recognise their collaborators as innovators of long standing in their own right." Garvey wrote that "it’s about everything and nothing, partying and post-postmodernism, global street music and the New York art world, commodity fetishism and basketball," but these concepts were unidentifiable when listening to the music itself, and the songs are actually "weirdly unremarkable.
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For Blüher, at least, Jansen was the pioneering personality of the youth movement: The motif of the naked body, pristinely and truly perceived, is found not only in the youth movement, but also in other life reform groups and schools of thought. In all these cases, reference is made to the noble and truly idealized nudity of ancient cultures. Historian of the Movement Hans Blüher, who graduated from high school in 1907, spent seven years in the Wandervogel movement before leaving in 1909. But even then, he did not completely break off ties with the group, particularly as Blüher stood by his early friendships during the split-up of the organization and reclaimed sovereignty of interpretation over the development of the movement at the behest of the movement itself and supported by Willie Jansen, who urged him to pre-empt another party's account of the Wandervogel with a work of his own.
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Cropduster appear in the April 2001 issue of The Aquarian Weekly, who noted "no one could've predicted their crown opus circa 2001, the undeniably addictive, pristinely recorded release Drunk Uncle[;] on all levels one of the year's top independent releases." Kevin Graves of AllMusic says "with vocals that linger somewhere near the same sing-speak cowboy range as the Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti, guitars that tend toward choppy strumming, and a general alt-country air that mixes things up with distorted electric guitars now and again, Cropduster's music is likable," and closes the review by saying "much of the album has a spirited jangle that calls to mind Philadelphia's exquisite outfit The Trouble with Sweeney, though Cropduster occasionally turns things up a notch further than the Trouble With Sweeney normally would." In a record review for CMJ, columnist Dylan Siegler writes "Cropdusters songs teeter on the same fine line, the one between endearing and stupid, packing in tight alterna-pop hooks and quirky instrumental breaks[;] with production as slick as a bowling alley, at the very least, Cropduster doesn't sound like a bunch of wannabe mainstream anterna-rockers–they sound like the real thing." Billboard.
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