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10.0
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10.0 |
The Arts Desk
The shape-shifting Fanfare moves between the euphoric and introspective with no effort. The sparse gives way to the dense and lush with seamless logic
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9.0
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9.0 |
musicOMH
Fanfare is the sort of album Jonathan Wilson was bound to make, immaculately crafted and perfectly defined
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s proggy in places but rarely feels indulgent – journeys like this one are well worth the time
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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
The North Carolina’s modern hippie’s second album is too ambitious, too fluently fluently surprising and too lovely to appeal to 1970s retro-heads alone
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Digital Fix
The more you listen, the more you appreciate the care taken over each track, and every instrument played
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
Not only is the musicianship exceptional, but everything is cleanly mic'd up, deliciously recorded, exquisitely mixed
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8.0
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The Scotsman
Not some retro exercise
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Tight, clever, and artfully constructed
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8.0
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The Guardian
Fanfare takes several plays to fully reveal its charms, but persistence is more than worthwhile
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
Fanfare offers a classy rumination on modern values – albeit something of a conundrum, in being perhaps the most sophisticated celebration of simplicity ever recorded
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8.0
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The Irish Times
It’s fascinating to hear how he forged these songs into tumultuous, multilayered affairs, neatly tuned between the folk and psychedelia channel
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
A piece of work that would have been remarkable had it been released during the era it emulates, and which sounds remarkably ‘now’ today
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8.0
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Clash
While his distinctive voice and keening melodies are as enchanting as ever, Wilson has added a cinematic heft that neatly avoids being saccharine
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Quietus
Fanfare offers restraint in not riding a song's central idea so hard, but also plenty of ambition – songs are consistently pushed to new places here, instead of digging further into the ground already hoed, as on Gentle Spirit
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6.5
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6.5 |
The 405
An altogether grander album than its predecessor, Fanfare is certainly a fitting title
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
Fanfare plays out as some operatic Easy Rider. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
Channelling everything West Coast from Joni Mitchell to The Beach Boys. Print edition only
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