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Blue Water White Death

Blue Water White Death

Blue Water White Death

Collaboration between Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg results in a debut album of ambient soundscapes.

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6.1

Label
Graveface
UK Release date
12/10/2010
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  1. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Faults aside, Blue Water White Death is a lonely, harrowing world one can lose themselves in—even if it’s not one they’d necessarily want to be in
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  2. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    The constant tension between celestial melody and infernal cacophony creates an unconventional beauty
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  3. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    [A] tenuous mixture of majesty and hideousness, innocence and shame
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  4. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    An album that’s deceptively soothing yet seriously creepy
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  5. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Not everyone's glass of absinthe, but if you're a Nico or Beach House fan, welcome home
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  6. 6.0 |   Prefix

    Meiburg and Stewart could turn into a fruitful paring, based on the finer moments of the record. But their first steps together are, for the most part, awkward ones
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  7. 5.8 |   Pitchfork

    Feels inessential for all but the most sympathetic Xiu Xiu and Shearwater fans
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