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10.0
131889
10.0 |
Mojo
With Callahan's romantic certainty comes rare writerly confidence: several tunes bask in this miraculous feeling. Print edition only
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9.0
131890
9.0 |
musicOMH
His third album in four years shows how the former Smog man continues to raise the bar creatively, delivering another sumptuous and rewarding listen
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9.0
131909
9.0 |
Spectrum Culture
While the change and evolution may not come as a surprise to anyone who has listened to Callahan since his more impenetrable days, the exact path his evolution has taken is one that feels like a testament to how strange and wonderful life can be
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8.5
131891
8.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Whatever the initial intent, these songs now live on as The New Fables of Bill Callahan, and let’s just hope he doesn’t keep us waiting too long for the next volume
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8.4
131977
8.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
These are songs which manage to pull a sort of magic and meaning from various angles of the mundane
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8.0
132202
8.0 |
Record Collector
An album that finds Callahan in great form
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8.0
131929
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Reality is a gratifying return to Bill Callahan's off-kilter style
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8.0
131897
8.0 |
The Observer
The one-time misanthrope returns with beautifully understated reflections on dreams, death and the human condition
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8.0
131892
8.0 |
Uncut
YTILAER picks at the fabric of the universe and if it doesn't always find the answers it wants, the expansive musical backdrop underlines its slightly ecstatic, questing spirit. Print edition only
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8.0
131893
8.0 |
The Skinny
Masterful songwriter Bill Callahan shares an open-hearted and invigorating new collection of songs
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8.0
131894
8.0 |
The Guardian
The US singer-songwriter turns his experiences of love and contentment into a kind of beatific philosophy – tempered by his awareness of the forces that threaten it
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8.0
131895
8.0 |
The FT
Dreaming recurs in the ninth record from the American singer-songwriter which opens up an alternate reality
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7.8
131903
7.8 |
Pitchfork
On his third solo album in as many years, the wise and stoic singer-writer extolls the virtues of the sacred and the mundane
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7.6
131917
7.6 |
Northern Transmissions
These are the moments where Callahan does with his music what he’s done with the backwards reflected album title; make the familiar subtly strange and blur the distinction between reality and fictions of the mind, until the distinction between the two seems beyond the point
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7.0
131908
7.0 |
Under The Radar
At over an hour in length, the beauty of YTI?A?? can drag its feet a little bit, but listeners will find no trouble in surrendering to the world Callahan lets them into
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7.0
131896
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
If YTILAER is a short story then these chapters are skippable, but for the most part here is an analog delight, richly deserving in an hour of your time
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