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| | Raising the Fawn: The Maginot Line - PopMatters Music Review |
 | | Although John Crossingham has long been part of the extended Broken Social Scene family, his own band Raising the Fawn tends to stand alone, keeping a polite distance from the other collaborative celebrations we usually get from the band’s Toronto cohorts. |
 | | Whereas The North Sea alternated between moments of effervescent pop ("Gwendolyn"), gentle beauty ("The News"), and epic waves of guitar ("Drownded"), The Maginot Line is less about the instantly accessible thrills, emphasizing a more subtle, slower-burning style, with better continuity, the mix less bombastic and much more intimate. |
 | | Preceded by a sumptuous overture of ascending, E-bowed guitar notes, the equally ascendant “Carbon Paper” is the closest thing to an accessible, single-worthy song on the album, Crossingham’s versatile voice alternating between soaring notes and gentle falsetto (which has become his trademark), the band careening toward a cacophonous, Sonic Youth-like climax. |
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