At their best, the Aluminum Group craft gorgeously lush and airy chamber-pop on a par with the finest the genre has to offer; at their worst, they sound like a second-rate Magnetic Fields, with vocals eerily like the coffin-creaking of Stephen Merritt but without the biting lyrical wit or the uncanny melodic sophistication. Fortunately, the Aluminums' strengths typically win out on Plano -- for every misstep like the terribly-derivative synth-pop of "Angel on a Trampoline," there's a mela...   [ read more ]

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