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| 3.0 good | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | December 26th 23 |
One of the members of the uber-patient folk ensemble Musk Ox makes an album that is just as uber-patient, but also treads those waters with the barest tools at his disposal: a guitar plucked gently in the sparse minimalist tunes. There lie ephemeral bursts of inspiration with each track that each dissipate soon after the start, mostly to quite the underwhelming effect. Rinse and repeat the tactics in the first three tracks' employ and there you have a full album. Tepid at worst, dreamlike and meditative at best.
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| 3.0 good | ajcollins15 | July 27th 23 |
It?s not every day that I come across a classical guitar album that holds as much presence as this new Nathanael album does. Nathanael Larochette, better known for his dark folk act Musk Ox, comes through with a simple and stripped-down album simply made up of acoustic guitar melodies akin to classical guitar work of the late 1700 throughout the 1800 in Spain. It?s simple, breezy, and easy to put on in the background while you wander around. With that said the album is rather shallow to listen to from front to back and by the end you are ready for something a little more engaging. Still a solid listen from front to back.
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| 4.0 excellent | Bren80 | September 13th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Suyan | August 3rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | arf | July 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | NBA | July 23rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | July 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blaidd | July 22nd 23 |
| 3.5 great | ffs | July 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Elynna | July 21st 23 |
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