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8.9
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8.9 |
Paste Magazine
With Trampled by Turtles along for the ride, there’s a sense — rare, and difficult to fake — that everyone involved is not just playing with Sparhawk, but for him. Not as a backing band, not as a feature, but as co-authors of something sacred and fragile and alive
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8.5
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8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
While Sparhawk waxed experimental on the first recordings he released after Parker’s death, here he places the post-rock chanteuse and memories of all her warm, goose-bump-inducing harmonies in the spotlight
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8.0
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8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
While Trampled By Turtles provide a rustic backdrop which not only fits the material like a glove, but adds a world-weary sense of depth
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
The sense is of both parties yielding to the moment, guided by instinct and decades of fluency in their respective practices. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Somehow, With Trampled with Turtles combines the emotional heaviness and wounded introspection seamlessly with the palpable, communal joy of playing and singing music in good company
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
It’s not an entirely bleak album – though it has its moments, there’s a lot of beauty here in its thirty-two minutes. It is further proof of Sparhawk’s songwriting prowess, and like the aforementioned Messrs. Young and Costello, it will be interesting to see what he produces next
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7.6
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7.6 |
Pitchfork
On his second album since Mimi Parker’s death, the former Low singer steps away from electronic abstraction and into the steadfast support of an empathetic bluegrass band
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7.0
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7.0 |
Under The Radar
A satisfying Americana album and one that Low fans will enjoy. However, it feels like a missed trick to try and make something forward thinking, rather than familiar
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
As with so much of what came before it, Sparhawk’s songs are so quietly magnificent, the setting for them becomes almost arbitrary
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6.5
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6.5 |
Northern Transmissions
It’s his self-assured attitude, and perhaps self-fulfilling motivations that quietly center this record, even when it stumbles
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Quietus
The outcome of this pairing is an uneven affair, with deep troughs and high peaks
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