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Eyes on the Lines

Steve Gunn

Eyes on the Lines

First album on Matador from the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and former Violators member

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Matador
UK Release date
03/06/2016
US Release date
03/06/2016
  1. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    The most cohesive, robust, confident, and widely-distributed LP in Gunn's unofficial trilogy
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    An exhortation for travel both spiritual and physical. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   The Music

    A rewardingly immersive and freewheeling guitar rock record
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  4. 8.0 |   NOW

    Gunn excels at unrushed, meditative songwriting, but this album also finds him giving stronger form to his dreamy creations
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  5. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Truly radical
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  6. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    This could be your next roadtrip head-nodder
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  7. 8.0 |   Crack

    He’s just too passionate about his artform to be accused of insincerity
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  8. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    Perhaps no one else currently working in this idiom can so successfully make the past feel like a stopover on a forward-looking route rather than a roadblock
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  9. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    A rich and amiable meditation about travel and transition, about exploring, wandering, and letting yourself get lost
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  10. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    These songs wander, but they succeed because they enable us to wander, too. They encourage us to get lost
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  11. 8.0 |   All Music

    An album that leans toward the path less taken
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  12. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Gunn subsumes our drama by urging us, through the timbre of his guitar, to take in the leaves, the water, the steam
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  13. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The guitar playing, which is superb throughout, feels inextricably bound to the structure and shape of the melodies. Print edition only

  14. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The only downside to Eyes on the Lines‘ easygoing nature is that it results in a lack of tension
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  15. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Feeling stressed? Angry? Frustrated? Well pop on Steve Gunn’s new album and you’ll feel better in no time at all
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  16. 7.0 |   Earbuddy

    Warm, pleasant music to hit the warm, pleasant road to
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  17. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    Eyes on the Lines is unmistakably a guitarist's album, yet luckily for most, Gunn's song writing is also remarkably accessible
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  18. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    An album of songs replete with deeply personal sentiments that can apply to nearly anyone who hears them or has felt the insistent pull of wanderlust
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  19. 5.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    ‘Full Moon’, a kind of summery, laid-back, Beach Boys influenced track, is a highlight
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