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9.2
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Paste Magazine
Trevor Powers’ new album under his beloved moniker is a collection of music filled with kind self-reflection and hopeful imagination where the Boise singer-songwriter approaches the totality of life’s small, digitized and grainy moments by showcasing and scattering them across irresistible melodies and buttery piano leads
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9.0
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Northern Transmissions
Standing as a testament to the passage of time, and the strangeness of it, this album accentuates the importance of our relationships with other people, and the things we can’t keep, as well as the things that will remain
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8.5
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Under The Radar
Rarely Do I Dream is vital and exciting, and shows its audience, maybe for the first time, a Trevor Powers with a solid foundation and lots of gas in the tank
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8.3
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Beats Per Minute
While Rarely Do I Dream doubles down on the pop playbook used on Junkyard, and perhaps falls short of its predecessor in terms of “hit” tracks, the album represents a more mature development of Powers’ vision
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
A box of old home movies provides a foil to the hushed voices and mangled guitar riffs on the latest chapter in the Boise, Idaho, artist's story
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
He's delivered 12 songs of poignant autobiography rather than nostalgic wallowing. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
The album evokes a powerful sense of longing: a yearning for the connection, understanding, and beauty found in fleeting moments. In the hiss and fuzz of splintered memories and reveries, Powers draws us into a past that lingers, soft and near, just within reach
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8.0
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8.0 |
Far Out
Whether you’re here for nostalgia, to dance or to feel, there is a track on Rarely Do I Dream for you, as this is a record you won’t forget in a hurry
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Trevor Powers wants you to get lost in the album, and he makes it impossibly easy to take the bait
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7.4
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7.4 |
Pitchfork
On a record combining driving rhythms, cinematic synths, and snatches of home videos, Trevor Powers sketches a gothic frontier strewn with fabled characters and blood relations
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
Incorporates elements of all prior iterations of Powers, restoring a lusher, full-band palette bedded in synthesizers and fuzz, but also incorporating svelter moments and plenty of tape audio from those home movies
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6.0
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Mojo
Through dry humour, love songs as tender as Tim Hardin's, tremolo guitars and intensely moving samples Powers reveals a psyche reborn. Print edition only
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