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| 3.8 excellent | Erwann S. EMERITUS | September 28th 20 |
Although this is an excellent record, one cannot help but compare it to Dead Magic. Two things come to mind: there are no vocals here, and the tracks are much shorter. So. The atmosphere sure is ethereal and mysterious, as expected, but the lack of her banshee vocals diminishes the record's emotional impact. Likewise, no epic giant like "Ugly and Vengeful" made the last record so impactful. However, Anna couldn't possibly release Dead Magic Part II. She chose to go full minimal and drone, the organ replacing her voice. Textures drift away from each other, hypnotizing you and making you forget looming doom. The fact that she could come up with such a captivating album while switching the focus to an acclaimed soundscape proves Anna is one of the best solo musicians. Period.
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| 4.0 excellent | GoldenGuy444 | December 29th 22 |
Sacro Bosco is one of the most foreboding unnerving pieces of music I've heard this year. And that album art is terrifying! What a unique surprise this was to randomly stumble upon
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| 4.0 excellent | didnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | January 9th 21 |
In a display of minimalist instrumental musicianship, Anna Von Hausswolff makes an album that can - in a matter of tone - turn its own whole nature upside down, from eerie and distanced to beautiful and emotional. Once more does her knack for mystifying song-writing bring her to the verge of ambient and drone music, only with much more moving and terse effect.
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| 3.5 great | SinNanna | December 6th 20 |
2 years after Dead Magic, which is widely considered to be Anna's most creatively successful record, she makes the bold and daring artistic choice to not recreate or build upon the sound that shaped her newfound audience but rather strip things back completely for a very serene and atmospheric neo-classical ambient record. No vocals or any additional instrumentation, just her creating these songs entirely from the ground up with the single most prominent asset of her entire career, the pipe organ, which has Anna playing these rising and cascading sonic landscapes that are very beautiful and cinematic and less tense and dramatic than some of her earlier records have been at times. For an album with a sound of this scope it is kind of on the shorter side of things, and I also find that the first two tracks, while still very pretty, end a little abruptly and lack the progression and buildup of the tracks following them, which to me is really where the record becomes its most vivid and entrancing. As a result I think this album doesn't quite reach the potential for me that it could have, but it's still a very captivating effort that apart from a slow start blossoms and ends quite stunningly.
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| 4.0 excellent | Tyll | December 11th 25 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | November 1st 25 |
| 5.0 classic | Wzzzard | October 31st 25 |
| 5.0 classic | Lours | October 31st 25 |
| 3.0 good | JoeTex | March 10th 25 |
| 3.0 good | JoneHK | February 12th 24 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrManxxx | September 6th 23 |
| 4.3 superb | Ryan P STAFF | August 13th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | FunJan | March 1st 23 |
| 3.5 great | h0rsie | November 24th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Oobaloo | September 25th 22 |
| 3.5 great | arf | April 6th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | ZIG | March 23rd 22 |
| 3.5 great | Phate72 | February 13th 22 |
| 3.5 great | mongo77 | November 10th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | August 1st 21 |
| 3.5 great | lewzis | April 14th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kogakun | February 21st 21 |
| 3.5 great | Vaka | February 6th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | January 7th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Runeii | January 2nd 21 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | December 28th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Pangea | December 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | gilly | November 9th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. EMERITUS | October 4th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Corney | September 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | kevbogz | September 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | anat | September 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | hamid95 | September 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Xenophanes EMERITUS | September 29th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Risodo | September 28th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | September 26th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Elynna | September 26th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | jesper EMERITUS | September 25th 20 |
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