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Night Of Your Ascension

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Night Of Your Ascension

Third album from Chicago's JR Robinson, performed by a cast of 30 musicians and inspired by the murders of John Geoghan, Maria d’Avalos and Fabrizio Carafa

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
13/11/2015
US Release date
13/11/2015
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Whilst there are no definitive answers provided by Night Of Your Ascension, it provides a quite extraordinary soundtrack for considering notions of justice, life, love and murder
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  2. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The album’s effect is best felt — and its purpose best understood — when you give yourself over to its story, no matter how oppressive it gets
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Alternately brutal and exquisite, it is chilling, effective, and even necessary
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  4. 7.8 |   Pitchfork

    Given the way Robinson disposed of musical boundaries to put this music together, it spurs the audience to do the same practically by default
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  5. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    Explores, through a cascading matrix of sounds and musical forms, the nuances of the demons that course side-by-side through history, religion, and music
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  6. 6.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Aims to put the listener in the room during the murders and to make sense of why the murders fascinate us so much
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