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| 4.0 excellent | PickleVai17 | March 24th 23 |
I found this album to be quite good! Still has that nickel creek but also feels much more experimental compared to previous albums. Will definitely be on repeat for awhile.
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| 3.5 great | Ando! | January 31st 23 |
Returning after a long hiatus, Nickel Creek's recent release,Celebrants, raises questions which may elude answers on first listening. Questions such as, "why has the coward Jeremy Ferwerda axed the forum section of the website"?
The long-running collaboration between these nu-grass pioneers spans back to their childhoods. While each of the trio have long evolved away from pursuing Nickel Creek as their projet principal, these periodic check-ins from Thile, Watkins, and Watkins serve is both a reminder of what was as well as what can still be. The music resulting from these sessions is, for lack of a better comparison, like when Sweboy checks in to the community thread. We'd all be much more impoverished if these things didn't happen.
Projects like these can run into a perception that they aren't necessary, that the artists have moved onto more ambitious projects, that pining for nostalgia leaves one empty, searching, yearning for what perhaps never truly was in the first place. Does MacArthur-certified genius Chris Thile still need his teenage collaborators, when his more recent outfits (Punch Brothers, Goat Rodeo, among others) both shred harder and represent headier songwriting? Do we still need obscure vbulletin message boards in the face of Facebook, Twitter, and other big socials? This thinking is wrongheaded. We can capture what was grand about older projects - reify to ourselves that there was indeed some there there, while nevertheless using those older tools in innovative ways. Nickel Creek's previous effort, A Dotted Line, perhaps was named after the very process that leads someone to stumble in, post "Remember eliminator? lol", and log off for twelve more years. Celebrants, upon first listen, is faithful to and continues that very spirit.
Anyway, the first single, "strangers", is nice enough. Three point five outta five.
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| 4.5 superb | furpa | April 8th 23 |
Only continues to grow on me. AOTY so far. In the interim 9 years, Thile seems to have brought a lot of that experimental & progressive Punch Bros influence to his Nickel Creek work and the Watkins siblings are more than happy to go there with him, to stunning results no less. Probably their best album so far, if we're being honest.
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| 3.5 great | Thibs | June 14th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | May 20th 23 |
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