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Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North

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Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North

Erland Cooper and Simon Tong from folk pop band Erland And The Carnival combine with singer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral arranger Hannah Peel for an album celebrating the Orkney Islands

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Full Time Hobby
UK Release date
07/05/2012
US Release date
15/05/2012
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A truly beguiling record
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  2. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    These are timeless songs which rather than being of any genre - not even the hard-to-define 'folk' - seem to spring from the bare open horizons, low-lying islands and sea of Orkney, creating a unique bleak and windswept aesthetic
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  3. 8.0 |   AU Review

    An evocative, indelible, and utterly majestic ode to Orkney
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    The windswept islands captured in music. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It’s frightening, oddly seductive and often quite brilliant
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

    Songs as gloriously haunted as the land that spawned them. Print edition only

  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Each track is rich with strings and woodwind, but all with an unavoidable folky edge. It’s a formula that works, and works to the extent that sets it aside in terms of originality
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  8. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Majestic yet frustratingly aloof. Print edition only

  9. 5.5 |   Bowlegs

    Some of the tracks are over-arranged which gives the album, overall, a bit of an identity crisis
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