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8.3
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8.3 |
Pitchfork
On an interconnected suite of pieces for pipe organ, brass ensemble, and chamber choir, the composer balances minimalist intensity with sacred music’s depth of feeling
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8.0
136307
8.0 |
Mojo
Her ability to dominate a room with minimal musical movement is astonishing; this record lowers the temperature, heightens the sense, slows down life, frame by frame. Print edition only
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8.0
136308
8.0 |
NME
The likes of "No Sun To Burn" (for brass) or the nine0minute title track, will pull on the listener's heartstrings at least as much as it endorses the composer's process. Print edition only
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8.0
136309
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
US composer Kali Malone returns with an album that seeks to wrest devotional music from its religious connotations
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8.0
136310
8.0 |
The Quietus
The power of these long form works is the room afforded to imprint your own interpretations, feelings, and notions upon them like Rorschach tests or perceiving shapes in clouds. Will these drones imprint the same emotions and thoughts a thousand years from now? Only time will tell
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8.0
136311
8.0 |
The Guardian
Returning to the organ-playing that made her name and adding brass and vocals, the Thom Yorke-approved composer revels in the possibilities of her instruments
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8.0
136312
8.0 |
The Skinny
US composer Kali Malone returns with an album that seeks to wrest devotional music from its religious connotations
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8.0
136313
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Despite a potentially daunting 78-minute runtime, All Life Long is a surprisingly easy listen: inviting, contemplative and sonically rich, the sound of complexity unpacked for all to understand
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8.0
136328
8.0 |
The Observer
The Stockholm-based drone artist adds choral voices to her austere organ sounds on her startling, often sorrowful sixth album
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
On another strong record from Malone, organs and brass do not obfuscate, but clarify, her intentions, and clearly, she has delivered on hers: to make music that drones, haunts, and consoles in all the best ways
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7.1
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7.1 |
Beats Per Minute
At times, Malone’s “magic eye” seems elusive. Other times, it comes gloriously into focus, shimmering like an elegant mirage
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