★★★★★
Portland, Ore. collective Typhoon is not too far from Polyphonic Spree-levels of orchestrated choir-pop. The 11-piece band had an underground hit with "The Honest Truth" off its 2011 EP A New Kind of House, but singer Kyle Morton thought the band's second full-length album, White Lighter, might be the last thing they ever made. As a child, Morton suffered through multiple organ failures (including a kidney transplant), caused by a serious case of Lyme disease...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-08-28
★★★★★
White Lighter, the Portland-based band's third album, takes listeners on a journey from the timpani of the opening "Prelude" to the sighing violins of the closing "Post Script." Morten's songwriting is bolstered by a small orchestra of no less than ten talented individuals - a team, he says, he couldn't have completed the album without...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-08-17
★★★★★
This large Portland band's third album is a potent set of orchestral folk-pop, with a rich, dynamic sound featuring electric and hard-strummed acoustic guitars, horns, strings, keyboards and more on emotive, often lyrically dark songs laced with epic crescendos and sing-along choruses. 8/7/2013
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- kexp.org
2013-08-08
★★★★★
Kyle Morton writes songs for Typhoon as if they were the last works he might ever create. His band is big by rock standards, with somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen members playing mighty, powerful songs whose instrumentation conveys big, bold joy. But underneath it all are the words of a young man living on what he feels is borrowed time...
- www.kcrw.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
Imagine your life as a series of old houses and apartments that you can view as artifacts. That's the concept that drives A New Kind of House, the lush five-track EP by Portland-based indie orchestra Typhoon. That same sentiment likely also defines the 12-piece orchestral group itself, who are reminiscent of the artistic collaboratives of the '60s. Slow, lilting guitars and gentle percussion swell into an array of sonic colors that are driven by trumpets and keyboards as happens in "Claws Pt...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
In today's age, with the Internet and stuff, people download music as fast as their computer lets them. A major way that music is different from the pre-Internet age is that singles aren't quite as important as they used to be. Of course you still have humongous hits on the radio, but people are more impressed by an overall album nowadays. However, something that hasn't changed is the power that a single song can have...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-03-14
★★★★★
Music critics throw around adjectives like "orchestral" and "expansive" all the time these days. But here's a band that actually deserves such labels...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-03-14