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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. STAFF | February 10th 22 |
A playful and pastoral record, Heartland really ain't about songwriting: it's about dem sounds. Pallett's palette (rofl what a silly willy i am) is enriched with various classical instruments playing restrained modern classical music - ie post-minimalist, chamber, and baroque pop - juxtaposed with Pallett's soft voice. It starts off slow but steadily gains the confidence to finally provide emotional vibration in its second half.
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| 5.0 classic | Synthpop | December 6th 13 |
This album is absolutely not a five: the mastering/mixing is fucked up especially on Pallett's voice; some songs drag or refuse to go anywhere interesting; conceptually it's somewhere between stupidly clever and prententious as fuck. I think I might be the only five on the site, and that's fair, it's not a classic addition to music for all of time. Since it's release, however, I've listened and rediscovered my love for Owen Pallett's Heartland time and time again. His soft tenor and violin virtuosity, his silly high fantasy obsession, the individual highlights to each song. It's just a perfect album for me. I'm absolutely charmed by it's flaws and highpoints alike. Ideally, it's a 3.5-4 depending on your appreciation of orchestral pop, but my personal attachment and my refusal to remove it from my ever changing iPod library basically surmise my personal 5 for the album.
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 9th 24 |
| 3.5 great | sncold | February 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | hel9000 | December 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Gueero | February 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | PaabL | December 19th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Jan555 | July 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | anat CONTRIBUTOR | April 17th 17 |
| 3.5 great | oahmed | March 9th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Nylg | January 21st 15 |
| 3.5 great | Matski | December 9th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Filling | September 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Headband | December 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 4Train | November 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Teto | May 25th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | loydd | April 12th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | -1up!- | December 28th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Yotimi | November 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jemidu06 | November 26th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | mehd10s | November 26th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Hep Kat | November 22nd 10 |
| 3.0 good | wylpyl | November 21st 10 |
| 3.0 good | natey | October 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | doqtor | October 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Jips | October 11th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zizzer | October 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | occer | September 20th 10 |
| 3.0 good | BSX | June 22nd 10 |
| 3.5 great | puni | June 16th 10 |
| 2.5 average | lobby | May 10th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | conradtao EMERITUS | April 24th 10 |
| 3.5 great | HeavyB | April 16th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ramos29 | April 7th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Bleak | March 24th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | ECRbubs | February 27th 10 |
| 2.5 average | Mendigo | February 21st 10 |
| 3.5 great | jshap23 | February 14th 10 |
| 3.5 great | mx STAFF | January 21st 10 |
| 3.5 great | Kiran EMERITUS | January 13th 10 |
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