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All Creatures Will Make Merry

Meursault

All Creatures Will Make Merry

Second album of lo-fi indie folk from Edinburgh band led singer-songwriter by Neil Pennycook

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7.3

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Song By Toad
UK Release date
31/05/2010
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  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    There's an ever present uplifting edge, and even in its murkiest moments there's always a glimmer of hope; something the band will no doubt apply to their career too
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    Frontman Neil Pennycook is unveiling himself as one of alternative music’s great talents
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  3. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It feels Scottish through and through, that folk heritage now melded alongside more modern indie conventions, without anything being drowned in the process
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    They are definitely a band that will keep you guessing and always produce something unexpected and exciting. Surely that is why we fall in love with bands such as Meursault.
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  6. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    Throughout Merry, the seven-piece band busts out pitter-pattered drums, string swells, banjo solos, and rousing refrains. But Meursault largely retain the intimacy of their origins as the solo project of Neil Pennycook
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A record bursting with idiosyncratic complexity that may prove difficult to engage with at first, but once those initial barriers of fear are conquered, it's a thoroughly engrossing collection from a troubled mind or six
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  8. 7.0 |   Clash

    Channels much of the cacophonous, swirling noise and electronic textures of its predecessor... without simply retracing old steps; instead, allowing a whole new sonic chapter to unfold
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  9. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Not quite the predicted leap forward then, All Creatures... feels more of a restrained step sideways
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