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9.7
141901
9.7 |
Paste Magazine
The Louisville singer-songwriter’s second album with his backing band from all over is jam-packed with arresting turns of phrase, collapsing structures, and revelatory and bizarre unions of form
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9.0
141902
9.0 |
Uncut
What an incredible head-spinning trip this album is
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9.0
141933
9.0 |
Northern Transmissions
New Threats from the Soul is built with layers, layers of characters, layers of intricate musical choices, and layers of feeling. It constantly challenges you to peel them back and reflect. To see yourself in the shadows of society, in the lives we too often overlook as we pass them by
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8.7
141904
8.7 |
Pitchfork
The rich and dazzling album from the singer-songwriter is filled with rambling, gambling characters looking for hope. It’s the late arrival of an essential new voice in American indie rock
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8.4
141934
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
With New Threats, Davis, flanked by the talented Roadhouse Band, makes his mark, perhaps indelibly, joining a select group of artists who are deepening, broadening, and revamping the Americana genre
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8.0
141900
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Provides another compelling flowering of a unique and idiosyncratic songwriting talent
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8.0
141903
8.0 |
Mojo
Choruses swell gorgeously but unpredictably out of the continual wordplay and there's occasional moments of musical reverie. Print edition only
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