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Deaths And Entrances

My Latest Novel

Deaths And Entrances

Scottish folk-rock fivepiece with their second album

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7.1

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
18/05/2009
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  1. 8.9 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Magnificent enough in scope to attract comparisons to Funeral-era Arcade Fire. Yet there is enough beauty and softness to the album that it simultaneously exudes warmth and comfort, despite the often melancholy stories it tells
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    More than enough individuality and idiosyncrasy here to mark MLN down as harbingers of a new and lovely kind of folk/pop melancholy
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Give it time, and a picture of a band going about their business slowly, steadily and confidently will begin to emerge. They're not the next Arcade Fire, admittedly, but who the hell wants to be?
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  4. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    All in all, My Latest Novel have smoothed down the rough-edges of the first album, and continue to develop as songwriters. Like Idlewild, they’re smart enough not to sound pompous when they’re making big music, and perhaps need to choose between their lead singer actually singing – i.e. pushing his range – or focusing on conveying a narrative, and its emotion
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  5. 6.0 |   The List

    Gritty riffs, swirling strings, thundering drums and literature-referencing lyrics combine to make grandiose guitar epics reminiscent at points of The Delgados, Mogwai and Funeral-era Arcade Fire.
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