Rolling Stone (5/18/95, p.90) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...With a lone piano, muted strings or abstract jazz guitar, these San Franciscans achieve a beauty rare, disturbing and resonant. Their landscape is one Tim Hardin, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley sketched--an emotional plane charged with ambivalent, hurt grace..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/31/95, pp.61-62) - "...A beautiful structural mess, the album includes...extended songs that sprawl all over the darkened living room of your brain..." - Rating: A
Q (5/95, p.12) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Its brief, neat chords and phrases underpin relentlessly romantic, free-wandering melodies and warm lyrics of clear intensity, all with gorgeous guile."
Option (7-8/95, p.132) - "...Red House Painters can pack more degrees of emotion into a low-key ballad than most bands can put into an entire album....the nine songs on OCEAN BEACH become subtle masterpieces..."
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