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Voices in a Rented Room

Raw acoustic cuts on this collaboration between Six Organs Of Admittance's Ben Chasny and Donovan Quinn of Skygreen Leopards

ADM rating[?]

6.6

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
17/02/2014
US Release date
25/02/2014
  1. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    A fine album that reveals more about the band's humor and skill with each new listen
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Splendid, stripped-down collaboration. Print edition only

  3. 7.6 |   Pitchfork

    What makes this album special—and a highlight amid both principals’ sprawling discographies—is the way Chasny and Quinn offset their idyllic, campfire-ready accessibility with mellow-harshing irreverence
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  4. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    On the strength of the songs here and the pitch perfect atmosphere they’ve conjured it would be criminal if we didn’t hear more from them in the future
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  5. 7.0 |   All Music

    A strange, haunted look into imagined desert scenes, cheap motels, and tales of depraved living, floating by on tunes so unassuming they disappear before the darkness ever truly sets in
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  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    This is not an uplifting listen. Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    Voices in a Rented Room is, at its best moments, most certainly the start of something fruitful, even if there are a few small bumps early in the road
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  8. 4.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    The album is the only acoustic record I can think of that sounds like the group are playing acoustic versions rather than songs made for the acoustic stage
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