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I See The Sign

Sam Amidon

I See The Sign

Second album of updated age-old folk standards from the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

ADM rating[?]

7.8

Label
Bedroom Community
UK Release date
29/03/2010
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The marriage of ageless simplicity and avant-garde modernity ... is simply stunning. It’s creators are aware of where invention and understatement are best placed – the result is 42 transcendent minutes
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s clear that this album is another complete success for the most interesting and promising folk musician in North America today
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  3. 8.1 |   Pitchfork

    Much of I See the Sign's success can be chalked up to its arrangements, which are fractured and frequently off-kilter
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An album that will reward the listener able to put aside preconceptions and admire its clever and successful fusion of styles, genres and musical traditions
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  5. 8.0 |   The Independent

    The mostly traditional material covered here by Amidon is swathed in the string and horn arrangements of Nico Muhly and embellished with the worldly percussion and textural contributions of Shahzad Ismaily
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  6. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A thing of beauty and a triumph of collaboration, its honesty and sincerity likely to thaw even the coldest of hearts
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  7. 8.0 |   Spin

    Moby reinvented vintage field recordings as space-age nightclub blues. Sam Amidon works similarly quirky alchemy here, reinventing public-domain songs as rustic mood music
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  8. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  9. 8.0 |   Q

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  10. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  11. 8.0 |   State

    A spiritual, and at times mournful, record with alluring tales of a man lost in the world
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  12. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Overall, this at-first-shy but eventually overpowering record will make yer cheeks sting with wine and late-night gales
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  13. 7.0 |   Bowlegs

    With the ability to integrate an R Kelly track into a record of traditional ballads, it’s quite clear that his imagination and confidence are growing with every record
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  14. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    It's somnambulistic stuff, with Amidon – his voice as gentle as a sigh – relishing his role as both saviour and slayer of songbooks past
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  15. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    While Amidon does add something new to the folk canon, perhaps it isn't quite enough
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