"Bros" is the second single from

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's 2007 album '' Person Pitch''. It was named the third best song of 2007 by ''

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called the song the "album centerpiece" of '' Person Pitch'', describing it as "a 12-minute collage of chiming guitar

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, stony

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, hooting owls, and phasing loops that fade in and out of each other." ''

'' wrote that "from sighing multi-tracked vocals to jewel-box loops to caramelized guitar riffs, each layer adds hypnotic depth to a song whose gorgeousness seems dangerously excessive from the start."

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