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9.0
41800
9.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
More than any other work in Elverum’s canon, the album approaches the condition of sound art; lyrical drama recedes into the background to make way for wide swathes of synth and droning organs, motorik beats, and large celestial chimes
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9.0
43118
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
At the end of the forty minutes or so of Clear Moon it's hard not to achieve a sort of base level spiritual awareness about your life
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8.6
41802
8.6 |
Beats Per Minute
This record, as much of Elverum’s work is, is a grower in the most beautiful sense, and one that I can’t imagine will lose its brilliance any time soon
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8.5
42594
8.5 |
Prefix
Here the format of choice continues to be long, desolate tracks heavily informed by the brooding tone of black metal acts like Burzum and Xasthur. Though sonically, Clear Moon is more reserved
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8.3
41799
8.3 |
Pitchfork
Inscrutable and transfixing, plainspoken and unknowable, it feels like a collection of secrets Elverum has cupped in his palm to pour directly, and privately, into your ear alone
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8.0
43322
8.0 |
PopMatters
The sensory overload of Elverum’s music can be consciousness changing
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8.0
44156
8.0 |
Blurt
This is a rain-soaked, wind-buffeted pagan orgy of sound with intervals of serenity, and one of Elverum's best ever
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8.0
41912
8.0 |
No Ripcord
A songwriter unlimited by genre and also turned on by creative possibility
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8.0
41989
8.0 |
Mojo
Dreamlike imagery and weatherproof melodies battered by squalls of guitar, horns and chorales of electric noise. Print edition only
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8.0
42186
8.0 |
Spin
An undulant echo-folk tour of the Pacific Northwest in heavy fog: Breathtaking
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8.0
41797
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Elverum’s glow has never shined so bright
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7.5
41798
7.5 |
A.V. Club
An album that’s meaningful without feeling personal. Clear Moon is a thunderous effort
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7.0
41801
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Elverum's explorations usually fall somewhere in between the folksy camping-trip harmonies and the heavier, distortion-soaked misanthropy of his northwest contemporaries, and they definitely lean toward the latter on this outing
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7.0
41803
7.0 |
Bowlegs
The fifteen months in the cathedral studio can be heard in the echoes, the creaks and the album’s own personal journey
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7.0
41804
7.0 |
Uncut
A singular voice that has taken in feathery folk, gospel chanting and spine-crushing metal. Print edition only
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