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10.0
70839
10.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
In the quietness between piano notes and breaths and rolls of thunder and frog croaks, when the atmospheric hiss in your ears spills out into the sounds actually around you, it seems at the same time to invite your surroundings in
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9.0
71216
9.0 |
Fact
An album brimming with emotion despite the aching space at its heart
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9.0
70776
9.0 |
Clash
When she sings here, Harris is never full-blooded, instead a hushed accompaniment to her own playing – which is not to say that lyrics don’t strike home like stakes to the swollen heart
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9.0
70778
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It stands as both a fascinating new direction, and a heartbreaking memoir of a period now sinking into the past
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8.8
70775
8.8 |
Pitchfork
The emotional core of the album is the four melancholy songs for piano and voice, which are complemented by two instrumentals of a similar mood
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8.7
70863
8.7 |
Earbuddy
Liz Harris turns to the grand piano for her most intimate, emotional album yet
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8.5
70818
8.5 |
The 405
Grouper always creates music that demands a keen and patient ear. If you make the mistake of not lending the music your full attention the songs will disintegrate and thicken the atmosphere
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8.0
70802
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The tracks here are more in lieu of Chopin’s ‘Nocturnes’ or Satie’s ‘Gnossiennes’ - plaintive, dark meditations on loneliness that sit comfortably in the middle-distance
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8.0
70777
8.0 |
musicOMH
Ruins is one of those albums that sounds as it it was made easily and affordably – but it is also the kind of album that very few artists would have the courage or audacity to make
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8.0
70913
8.0 |
All Music
This is some of the ambient artist's most vulnerable and beautiful music
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8.0
71232
8.0 |
Beardfood
A consensus of oddities and scraps that manage to have a certain amount of intrigue and beauty that her more concocted excursions don't have
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8.0
71192
8.0 |
NME
Doggedly lo-fi but effortlessly enthralling
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7.5
70790
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
At the end of a record as cloudy and soothing as Ruins, the only place left to go is the recesses of your own mind. Liz Harris shows us firsthand how to do so fearlessly
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7.0
71052
7.0 |
PopMatters
Such an intimate, atmospheric LP
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7.0
70864
7.0 |
Exclaim
Yet another exceptional offering that captures a truly unique voice in a uniquely natural setting
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6.7
70980
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Despite consisting of well-crafted, thoughtful songs, the emotional gutpunch that is to be expected from a Grouper album never quite arrives over multiple listens
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6.0
70779
6.0 |
Mojo
Harris's spellbinding songs still feel beautifully half-hidden, buried in black space. Print edition only
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