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9.0
60433
9.0 |
The 405
With each record that his prolific nature produces, Krug is venturing further into himself, pouring every ounce of what he learns into each nuance of his work
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8.0
60434
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Not another album updating the great musical ideas of the past, then, but an album updating the great sentiments: to tell someone how much you need them and that you’d be lost without them
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8.0
60435
8.0 |
The Skinny
The originality of his themes and metaphors places him in the upper echelons of lyricists
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8.0
60436
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Krug seems intent on getting to the core of things; music, feelings, beauty – and in some senses he actually lives up to that aim
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8.0
60442
8.0 |
All Music
Eschews the brooding and reductionist, synth-heavy art-pop of previous outings for an even more austere approach
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8.0
60558
8.0 |
PopMatters
Julia is more touching than any Krug record made before it
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8.0
60564
8.0 |
Under The Radar
The piano has displaced Krug's veil of intellect and mystery. What remains is something warm, something sentimental, something beautiful. Spencer Krug has never sounded better
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8.0
60854
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
By evolving his music so far away from the style that gave him his reputation, Julia with Blue Jeans On implies that he's got some grand ideas for how to play indie rock into the grave
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8.0
60432
8.0 |
The Irish Times
An affecting exploration of vulnerability, with subtle statements bound up in heavy themes of isolation, grief and death
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8.0
61267
8.0 |
The Quietus
An album that doesn't shy away from the gravitas of grand gestures, and, more importantly, the emptiness that follows when they prove to be futile
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7.8
61046
7.8 |
Beats Per Minute
A sobering, honest, and often enlightening record that strings together Krug’s last romance
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7.7
60877
7.7 |
Pitchfork
It's all so deeply felt, it's impossible not to feel it, too
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7.0
60589
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
There is an undeniable power to Krug’s voice, a primal thing that’s always been suited for the sprawl of a vaulted auditorium. It’s there, not in bars or basements, that Julia is sure to thrive
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6.9
60568
6.9 |
Paste Magazine
Moonface is essentially making Krug more admirable and less enjoyable. Depending on what you look for, that is the measure of its success
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6.7
60593
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
There aren’t a ton of albums out there like this. If someone’s going acoustic, they’ll usually pick up a guitar and plagiarize their more interesting, electronic selves
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