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And The Pioneer Saboteurs

Micah P Hinson

And The Pioneer Saboteurs

The American alt.country singer-songwriter and guitarist with his follow-up to last year's covers double album

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Full Time Hobby
UK Release date
21/06/2010
  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    His voice exudes a sense of torture and worn-life normally attributed to someone closer to receiving his pension not his driving licence
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  2. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The way Hinson never rests on the laurels of his superlative vocal talents, but rather produces music and arrangements of equal weight, texture and significance to his voice is admirable. In doing so he has produced an album that has depth, resonance and class all of its own
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  3. 8.0 |   BBC

    Those who have followed Hinson’s career ... will be relieved by a compelling return to Gothic American themes which repays their early conviction that he is a unique songwriter capable of converting lyrical gloom into musical glory
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Micah has found some new life, with this new LP awash with lush strings in which his rich personality can bed down
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  7. 6.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    For hearty songs in a Lee Hazlewood- esque vein, you can’t go wrong with a stirring The Striking Before the Storm or the grizzled melancholy of Letter from Twin Wrecks
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