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10.0
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The Irish Times
Bill Callahan has woven something of a companion piece to 2007’s sublime Woke on a Whaleheart
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9.0
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Rave Magazine
Callahan might be returning to a musical and lyrical approach he had previously disavowed, but he’s never sounded more at home
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9.0
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Blurt
As barren as the Texas brushlands
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8.5
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The Quietus
Apocalypse is a mystery that will continue to haunt you through moments yet to come
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8.5
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Prefix
Each song drifts along effortlessly without calling needless attention to its hidden heart, let alone its long form structure
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8.3
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A.V. Club
Apocalypse is embellished mostly with surgical bursts of distortion and the odd flutter of Astral Weeks-esque fiddle and flute
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8.3
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Beats Per Minute
Apocalypse often feels less like a solo album and more like an album from a band called Smog
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8.0
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Mojo
Not one of his career's frequent great leaps forward, but still a thrilling delivery system for his formidable talents. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
In Callahan's work things aren't always what they seem, and the line between brilliant and bizarre can be thin. Print edition only
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Yet another minor triumph from an artist who, despite his constant self-deprecation, seems incapable of offering up less than his best
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8.0
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musicOMH
Its songs, usually built over limited, carefully selected chords, require close attention
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8.0
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BBC
Callahan has gifted us perhaps his most subversive set to date: an album less about apocalypse and ruin than it is upheaval of the positive variety, and one of the most contented and rewarding of his career
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The Scotsman
Instead, Apocalypse is a simple, uncluttered personal odyssey under big skies
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8.0
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No Ripcord
The tracks on Apocalypse breeze with a placid swoon
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The Independent
The songs are cemented together by modest arrangements of guitar, flute and piano, wielded like watercolours
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
Fabulous images of rustic solitude and existential dread married to smouldering country-rock
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
Seven sparse pieces of music, accompanying Callahan’s particularly dry sense of humour and his stark visual metaphors, his latest LP is as reliably fine as a new film from the Coen Brothers
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8.0
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Pitchfork
Callahan has nothing to add to the general conversation about music in 2011 but is making the best albums of his career
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8.0
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NME
Heartbreaking self-indictment glowers through Apocalypse. Print edition only
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State
It seems like a fan-only release that may just please the hardcore Smog lovers
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7.5
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Bowlegs
While this doesn’t top ‘Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle’, it does create a varying landscape, fine-tuning what has gone before, maturing artistically
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7.0
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Spin
Subtle songwriting that's sly like a stick in your eye
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Swings elegantly from soft and gorgeous to black and grinding
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7.0
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PopMatters
Callahan’s stripped away a good degree of the hooks present on Eagle, and in the process he’s made a more serious (and, sure, self-serious) album
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4.0
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Q
Has the feel of a side-project. Print edition only
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