Album Rating: 5.0
I guess similar to Kozelek if you’ve been riding with him since the start then when the artist peels back all the layers and delivers something confessional and pure and stripped back it stands out a lot more.
Callahan has recorded ten or so great albums, really varied themes and song writing, he’s got that in the armoury - but he’s chosen to deliver what he has here for a reason. Just like Kozelek did with Benji. Or maybe even Suf with C&L (Maybe, slightly different career stage)
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Album Rating: 5.0
‘1 hour audiobook’
Tbh this is quite ‘novel-esque’ and I wouldn’t mind something between an album and an audiobook from a dude like BC.
This is already a bit like that description and better for it for me. It’s different to where he’s been before and it’s still plenty conventionally songful imo.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Thanks to ddd, piglet and the more posi people in the thread
Gyro is all good though, can understand this one is divisive
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its supposed conventionally songful nature isn't apparent to me. it doesn't necessarily sound super unconventional, but certainly lacking in certain areas of convention, like having melody and hooks and variety. comparing it to C&L just further loses me, since it's another album full of atmosphere and hooks and vocal shifts that has little in common with this far as i can tell. but to each their own. seems like you can concede that this is more like an audiobook format than an album, which you find wholesome and great, and i find tedious and dull. maybe i'll come around to it more if i dig into his discography.
at any rate, the review is great and makes me wish i enjoyed this lol.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Suf I was more thinking he was going more and more experimental up to Age of Adz...then went unexpectedly confessional, raw and largely acoustic
This is a sort of similar career shift
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i heard river guard recently, which i like more than anything on this album by a huge margin
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Album Rating: 5.0
That’s a song I’ve know a long time, I’d say it’s his best overall - but there’s songs here I’d also class as perfect but they’re obviously different being primarily acoustic and more obviously auto biographical etc
I’m not sure you’ll love full albums by BC, individual tracks might be the way to go. Maybe try ‘To Be Of Use’ which is similarly sparse to this but goes for a VERY different vibe.
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the beast and angela are the only songs i come back to from here
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just heard to be of use. really like this one too, which might seem ironic based on me bashing this for being too basic lol. but idk, i find his voice so much more expressive here, and i don't mind the simplicity
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Album Rating: 5.0
Certainty, Son of the Sea and Tugboats are my favourites of the more conventional tunes, Angela is good too though
I do really like Hulk and 747 for the more rambling arrangements
Short interlude-y ones I like Release and Circles
Opening two tunes become a really great intro over time
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Front cover is rubbish
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Love to see a new Doof review, will give it a proper read later
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lonesome Valley is prob my least loved inclusion though it’s obvious it had to be there thematically
The way the backing instrumentation builds in that tune is interesting though, still a 4/5 song for me.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The album cover looks like an early 2000’s indie folk album cover
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Yeah very Iron And Wine to me
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Looks like a book from a primary school library whose headteacher is the author.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Does the job.
States clearly: this will be a riff free zone.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
How bout this for a hook in your heart?
"True love is not magic
It's certainty
And what comes after certainty?
A world of mystery…"
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Album Rating: 5.0
DDD - the way he sings that song is one of the musical moments of the year, brings that authenticity of emotion he really does
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
"one of the musical moments of the year" agreed
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