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9.0
22449
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Devoid of gimmickry or subgenre convention, a diorite slab of lordly riffing inscribed with folkloric spirituality
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8.0
22900
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The melodies throughout ‘The Gathering’ are uniformly strong
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8.0
21834
8.0 |
The Guardian
Heumann has one of the most distinctive voices around, with a unique, heavy-folk feel to his grand, hymnal melodies
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8.0
22048
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
Heavy Southern-rock riffs meld into screeching melodies in a way that’s both tasteful and exciting
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8.0
22216
8.0 |
Uncut
Heavier, moodier and better than ever. Print edition only
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8.0
22243
8.0 |
Mojo
Finds the trance-like electric Fairport grooves of previous albums amped-up, down-tuned and distorted into a huge, oceanic swell of chugging noise. Print edition only
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7.0
22595
7.0 |
The Quietus
As a whole the album hangs together slightly less than its predecessors
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7.0
22423
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
A revitalizing roll in the dirt, particularly for listeners put off by hard rock that either forays too far into other genres or is too polished by spit-shined production
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7.0
26115
7.0 |
Blurt
Easily some of the best work with which the ever-prolific indie rock journeyman Heumann has been associated
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6.0
21836
6.0 |
The Observer
Rough-hewn rock'n'roll that seems custom-made to be the soundtrack for some mythical peyote binge in the desert
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6.0
21837
6.0 |
The Independent
It's stoner-folk-rock, like a heavier version of Midlake or an opiated Fairport
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5.0
21835
5.0 |
Spin
Few highs or lows save for intermittent instrumental heroics
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5.0
22049
5.0 |
No Ripcord
Although at it's best The Gathering is an immersive throwback to a bygone age, considering there are already many records that do this sort of thing much more consistently, it's difficult to recommend
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4.9
22339
4.9 |
Pitchfork
Arbouretum were once a very good folk-rock outfit; they might want to consider calming down, or unplugging
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4.0
23628
4.0 |
Bowlegs
So dense and plodding is the music at times, that it gets mired in a singular pace, deviating from slow to slower occasionally in an attempt to mix things up
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