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Dark Was The Night

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Dark Was The Night

31 tracks from an assortment of American indie/folk stalwarts, for a good cause

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
4AD
UK Release date
16/02/2009
  1. 8.5 |   Pitchfork

    Charity albums all start wonderfully-- with good intentions and noble causes.
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  2. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The result is a compilation which features some of the brightest names in North American indie-rock at the moment – in fact, it’s no exaggeration to say that the cream of the crop are all present and correct here.
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  3. 8.0 |   Spin

    Top-drawer contributions from the Decemberists, Feist, Sufjan Stevens, and Antony Hegarty prevent the largely somber proceedings from plummeting into unchecked sorrow.
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  4. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Household names Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, Iron Wine, The National and Feist play to their strengths.
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  5. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    There is the sense of a vague outline forming behind the indie/folk scene, artists who respect each other and believe in the musical scene they are creating; a movement which is a lot stronger than suggested by the gentle chords they strum.
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  6. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Too much of what is on show here is distinctly unchallenging; it's as if many of the artists have held fire and left the more imaginative stuff for their own records. It is left to old-stagers like Byrne and the Kronos Quartet to put the young whippersnappers in their place.
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  7. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Years of musical inbreeding have taken their toll on this notional aristocracy.
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