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Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You

Latest release from the lo-fi alt.folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham was recorded in Louisville, Kentucky

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
11/08/2023
US Release date
11/08/2023
  1. 9.0 |   All Music

    Like the best of Bonnie "Prince" Billy's work that came before it, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is the kind of record that gets played over and over until it feels like a part of the listener's personal history
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    An open, compassionate record with a fierce spirit. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Has a spare, homespun feel with its simple folk guitar. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    This record stands out because of its incredible thematic range. Such a well-rounded piece of work could only have been made by Bonnie Prince Billy himself, who has clearly lived life through his own fascinating, emotionally charged subjectivity
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  5. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Bonnie “Prince” Billy suggests the strangeness of life comes in how people silently consent to mainstream conformism like marriage without revision or reinvention
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  6. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    On his first solo album in four years, Will Oldham dispenses the wisdom of his life and the anxiety of his present into some of his most intimate and compelling musical settings
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  7. 7.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    A delicate descendent of Oldham’s excellent Master and Everyone
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  8. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    Like any secret, it is sometimes sharp and poignant, sometimes mundane. And yet, in its best moments, it becomes a secret worth hearing
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