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A Wonder Working Stone

Alasdair Roberts & Friends

A Wonder Working Stone

The Scottish folk singer-songwriter and musician with his first collection of all-original material since 2009, with diverse inspiration and guests including Rafe Fitzpatrick and Ben Reynolds

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
21/01/2013
US Release date
22/01/2013
  1. 9.0 |   Uncut

    Few, if any, artists are pushing the boundaries of traditional music further. Print edition only

  2. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    Highly allegorical, historical and Biblically literate, Alasdair Roberts can make Nick Cave seem like a picnic, PJ Harvey a pyjama party
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    This is comfortably Roberts’ most colourful recording
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Roberts makes an art form of blurring the borders between his freshly penned songs and the pervasive influence of the Scottish (and other British) folk music tradition, in which he is carving out a personal place all the while
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    His dogged research has loaded these self-penned pieces with all of the mystery, language, and myth usually found in years-old traditional ballads
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  6. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Funny touching, thoughtful, more than a little bit weird ... and rather wonderful. Print edition only

  7. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    The arrangements are kept loose and casual, sounding at points as though these musicians had just happened upon each other down at their local
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  8. 7.0 |   Blurt

    An intriguing reinvention that makes this an ideal marriage of folk and finesse
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  9. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Roberts continues to blur the borders between ancient and modern, between heady myth and harsh reality
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