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9.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
This is an album that slithers and slinks more than it struts. It fades to and fro, blurs the edges, and disorients
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
Love and hope stay preciously rare yet infinitely possible, and this album’s guttering, guiding light. Print edition only
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7.8
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7.8 |
Beats Per Minute
While there is no grand reinvention here, there is a sense of progression and looking forward, of offering something needed and necessary
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
If you’re in the right headspace, The Great Awakening can be of remarkable comfort, acting as a space where, for a solid hour, one can simply forget the stresses and the agonies of the outside world
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6.8
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Pitchfork
The first album in six years from Jonathan Meiburg and co. returns to the band’s patient style of baroque, naturalistic art-rock
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6.0
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PopMatters
Shearwater’s The Great Awakening is a mostly plodding creation whose intriguing nuances and insights are marred by musical tedium and hollowness
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6.0
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The Arts Desk
Shearwater’s seventh album is chock-full of metaphor
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
These opaque, often uneasy sounding songs conjure nature's unpredictability and vulnerability as well as its beauty. Print edition only
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