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| 4.0 excellent | MisterTornado | June 26th 13 |
I'm glad Obama decided to let Julianna Barwick out of Area 51 so she could tell us all about the time she flew to the moon and back on a crystal sleigh guided by winged unicorns. As the story goes... upon landing inside a snuggly moon crater, draped in thick layers of silk and ivory, she met her angelic choir of eternally adolescent sirens (as foretold by Oz after her whimsical affair in Emerald City). It was here they composed "Nepenthe", an aural medicine of sorrow that could cure sadness. Soon after Nepenthe was composed inside the crater and Julianna flew off in her crystal sleigh into a spacey abyss, the moon cried a single tear that flew down to Earth and showered the planet in optimism and infinite kindness for all of its inhabitants.
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| 0.0 | Runeii | July 8th 13 |
treeqt and nado dig this, gotta check then.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | December 22nd 23 |
An ever shifting dreamscape of more or less vocal ambient with gorgeous layered chorals, this is Julianna doing what we've previously heard her do, but really well executed. A lot of this could be a magnificient soundtrack, and it leaves the mind to meander in places full of tampered light. It's a bit too single flow to have top tier genius highlights to pinpoint, although some tracks like 2 or 5 do stand out, but there aren't really lows to speak of either. It's a good one to jam and drown into without trying to separate the tracks. Now this is not at all ambient sadfolk like Grouper or Sea Oleena who she is often likened to, a musical corner which I would love to hear more from, but I don't think it would be fair to rate Julianna's well crafted work on this basis. 3.85
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| 4.0 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | March 31st 22 |
Another gorgeous ambient release enhanced by Barwick's ethereal stance on a cappella vocals, Nepenthe wears its pop influences prouder than ever. It's thus more maximalist than the peaceful The Magic Place, even though she - fortunately - doesn't fall into Enya territories. When the multilayered vocals and soothing ambient are complemented with strings like on "Pyrrhic", this is an absolute stunner.
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| 3.0 good | lullomatic | September 8th 13 |
Love Julianna's outputs and like this album, but I find it a bit underwhelmig, repetitive and less evocative than The Magic Place
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| 4.0 excellent | Denis | December 11th 23 |
| 3.5 great | spur55 | June 26th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Polvo | January 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | hel9000 | June 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | dunnope | December 20th 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Mandais | October 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | OSEL | December 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | November 18th 16 |
| 3.5 great | stromz | August 7th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Jade | April 11th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | YakNips | January 15th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | tjare | September 3rd 15 |
| 4.5 superb | Froot | July 26th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | January 27th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | November 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | DarinRG | October 3rd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | April 4th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Roargh | February 15th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | mehd10s | January 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimgorn | December 29th 13 |
| 4.3 superb | Athom EMERITUS | December 27th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | chayka | December 18th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | December 18th 13 |
| 3.5 great | gosk8n | December 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | bjorkil | November 26th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Irving EMERITUS | November 9th 13 |
| 4.2 excellent | Mikesn EMERITUS | October 18th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | doqtor | October 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | bkeating | September 28th 13 |
| 3.5 great | TheDMV | September 26th 13 |
| 3.5 great | cuki92 | September 24th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | August 31st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Troggy | August 28th 13 |
| 3.5 great | RedSky | August 20th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Caelum | July 23rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | robin | July 21st 13 |
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