Album Rating: 5.0
There are loads up there, no idea :/
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Any album that has that as it’s cover is pushing its luck
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Album Rating: 5.0
Mermaid clinging to the phallic dung pile?
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Album Rating: 4.0
This album really is an absolute joy to listen to ain't it
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Album Rating: 5.0
Certainly
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Album Rating: 5.0
New one is back to this top form
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Album Rating: 5.0
Someone else review it though (probably Boney, nudge nudge)
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Album Rating: 4.0
I have been summoned, I see. The new one is indeed wonderful on first pass. I'll see what I can do about a review...
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Couldn't quite click with the new one on the first listen yesterday. But a fresh morning and a fresh listen brought it all together. What a year this has been.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Yeah, Q3 made me think the strong streak of Q1 and 2 had been broken but late Q3/Q4 so far has stepped it back up.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lucman - it’s a strange album in some ways, if the opening and closing pairs of tracks grow on me then it’s probably my album of the year. The stretch from Bowevil to Horses is almost perfect though, maybe his best ever stretch of songs. The opener is a good song but I’m so used to 5’ing his openers…Drover, The Sing, Jim Cain, Pigeons - I don’t think it’s one of them.
I’d say Partition, Naked Souls and Coyotes are the real meat of the album, but being a dad I also find Natural Information irresistible.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Doof check this feature where he reviews a bunch of his own albums. He also mentions there that the first couple tracks on the new one are sort of introductory tracks.
https://uproxx.com/indie/bill-callahan-reviews-his-own-albums-reality-review/
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Album Rating: 5.0
That was a good read, thanks Boney.
It took a third totally uninterrupted and focused listen and yeah, the new one is a 5. Close to his best I'd say, I think it's better than 'Dream River' that's somewhat similar and a lot of people are comparing it to. Also it's on par with this album, I think I liked this one especially for being an audacious double album return but the new one is slightly less unwieldy.
Dunno it's great anyway.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Listening a second time now to the new one and have really noticed how great the drumming is, even wrote down that it sounded a lot like Jim White of Dirty Three (maybe one of my top 5 drummers ever?) and I kept thinking that so much that I just had to look up who did the drumming and lo and behold it was indeed Jim White! Gotta be one of the most distinctive drumming styles out there, and he adds so much to YTILAER.
Edit: Looked it up and apparently White did drums on a couple of the Smog albums as well but if I knew that I had forgotten it, and it seems this is the first he’s played on a Bill Callahan-billed album.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Doof - Oh yeah, the middle stretch from Partition through Coyotes (right now the pick of the lot for me) is brilliant. Opening two are marvelous as well. And I love how Planets morphs into something entirely unexpected.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Boney - agree all the band he’s assembled this time are great, but particularly White’s drums, good to hear him making a fuller sounding album again
Lucman - the three long songs in the middle are all incredible, lyrically I love Naked Souls so that’s the top song for me, close to an all time top 10 Bill choon and VERY close to song of the year too. ‘Lily’ in the middle of those songs is an absolute beauty when it gets going too, that’s a perfect stretch of roughly 25 minutes!
I now have four Callahan 5 rated albums in this, Shepherd, Knock Knock and I just bumped Eagle up. Will return to Red Apple and A River too sometime soon.
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Just finished my first listen to the new one, never really gotten too into any of Bill Callahan's albums but it sounded awesome
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Album Rating: 5.0
Album is an absolute stunner - definitely between Callahan and the 40 Watt Sun for my album of the year...
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