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Luminous Night

Six Organs of Admittance

Luminous Night

The 11th official album from guitarist Ben Chasny's psychedelia-leaning alt.folk band

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
18/08/2009
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    His best and most realised work since 2005's School Of The Flower … At times hypnotic and otherworldly, it's a soothing, unsettling and challenging listen.
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  2. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    His most clear-eyed, metaphysical exploration yet, as well as … some of the best noise released this year.
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  3. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    With each composition given equal attention and detail, the result is Six Organs of Admittance’s best-conceived offering… lavishly scored and, in some cases, downright sinister.
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  5. 7.0 |   NME

    A set of sombre fingerpicked fables, ‘Luminous Night’ is heavy in spirit. It is cold to the core, as if it’s being played in the long shadow of a tombstone.
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  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Mining everything from traditional English folk music to Middle Eastern atmospherics, it has a hypnotic, blood-pressure-lowering quality that, listened to closely and repeatedly, could induce episodes of involuntary spontaneous de-evolution.
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  7. 5.0 |   Spin

    While his guitar remains ulceric, songs such as “The Ballad of Charley Harper” stew rather than combust.
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