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Don't Weigh Down the Light

Meg Baird

Don't Weigh Down the Light

Fourth solo album from the San Francisco-based folk singer and Espers frontwoman

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Wichita
UK Release date
22/06/2015
US Release date
23/06/2015
  1. 8.0 |   DIY

    A beautifully emotive listen, steeped in convention whilst eliciting a heavily relatable and contemporary narrative and tone
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Things can get twee - but this feels like a tiny church in that forest, sacred and touching. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Fashions change, but Baird's music remains gorgeous. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   All Music

    It carefully builds - creatively and emotionally - on everything Baird had accomplished so far and ascends to another level entirely
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  5. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Simple in its beauty, but with much to rediscover on subsequent listens
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  6. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    This is an album with beauty stitched into its very fabric
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  7. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    Her voice is well-suited to close-harmony singing, and here she makes frequent use of vocal multi-tracking, adding whispery harmonies at what sounds like the upper limits of her register
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  8. 7.0 |   NME

    Delicate fingerpicking nuzzles fuzzily electric guitar solos
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  9. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    It’s an easy recommend for wayward fans/newcomers alike and a rare and resplendent listen for anyone with ears enough to hear it
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  10. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It’s hard to properly describe an album which needs to be experienced from start to finish rather than intimately analysed. Give yourself the opportunity to become part of Meg Baird’s brave new world. You won’t be disappointed
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  11. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    A beautiful background listen; it's just a little frustrating that often it feels like Baird fails to connect as a lyricist
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    There is too much atmospheric smoke, not enough revelatory mirror. Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    More of an album to drift off to than one to be intensely engrossed by
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  14. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Unceasingly calm and atmospheric, Baird’s light, almost impressionistic vocal and finger-picking style augmented by additional guitars and a little unobtrusive percussion
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