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Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

The Low Anthem

Oh My God, Charlie Darwin

Rhode Island alt.folk rockers with a third album of old-style Americana

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6.8

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
29/06/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Sounds like something that might be sung by mournful voices, a grieving community gathered on a hillside, rain-swept, beneath glowering skies, the end a-coming
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    This sounds like the work of two bands, meeting awkwardly. However, one of them is really great
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  3. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    The understated moments are where The Low Anthem resonate loudest, but this is a gorgeously well-rounded affair
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  4. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Pulls away from recent Americana fare by tipping its hat in the direction of the knowing barroom stomps of Tom Waits. So, every time you start to think that this is all getting a bit too pretty, somebody starts yelling
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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    While the Fleet Foxes references still don't sit well with this reviewer, the other cliche -comparison to Tom Waits - works for this very reason. Just as Waits has the power to infuse you with familiarity with the return of a chord, so do the songs of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, like an embroidered pillow on an old porch that says ‘home sweet home’
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  6. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Another gush from that inexhaustible wellspring of bands that feature clever urban lads going wholegrain, embracing roots music with the fervour of organic pioneers
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  7. 6.0 |   The Observer

    The lyrics allude to apocalypse and perseverance and are beautifully written, but the music is only sporadically engaging
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  8. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    These Brown-educated folkies with a love for old-time Americana fill their second album with harmonium, banjo and more references to Ohio, Montana and the Mayflower than a seventh-grade U.S. history class
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  9. 6.0 |   The Independent

    It all combines to create a fascinating impression of another young American band in search of those traditional values of fellowship and free debate abandoned during the Bush years
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  10. 5.0 |   The Quietus

    At moments Oh My God, Charlie Darwin is a pleasant stab at traditional Americana folk. Unfortunately, it doesn't even begin to come close to its more commanding and electrifying peers currently doing the circuit
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