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8.0
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Exclaim
With Ribbons, it is clear that Bibio is trying to take the best parts of his music over the years and bring them together into one concise, but eclectic, album, and on more than a few moments, he succeeds beautifully
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Ribbons' tangents add to its masterful feel - at this point in Wilkinson's career, his music is so rich that he can bring any aspect of it to the fore in ways that feel equally natural and surprising
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
There is a classicism to the songs that give Ribbons a mature, lived in feel but also dislocates it from any specific era, giving it a unique and distinctive feel
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
Imbued with sublime melodic flair and a lingering atmosphere that echoes after the final note has been plucked gracefully from Bibio’s well-served guitar
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8.0
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Q
Feels almost like a homecoming. Print edition only
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7.5
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7.5 |
The 405
His most concise album yet
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Wilkinson has once again proved his complete mastery of bottling a certain tone to his music through the right craft of sounds. With Ribbons, he has bottled springtime
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7.5
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7.5 |
Pitchfork
After drifting into ambient drone on his last album, Stephen Wilkinson returns to his chill, bucolic stomping grounds
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Music
It’s a work instantly recognisable as his own, with easy tunes and memorable acoustic licks. Surely that breakthrough to a wider audience is only a hit away?
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Ribbons is a folk album made with a beatmaker’s perspective
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6.0
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6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
With this kind of music there’s always the risk that an insipid tweeness might creep in around the edges and poison the cocoon of loveliness (as twee as that sounds in itself), and of course with an album of this length inevitably there’s the occasional dip
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6.0
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6.0 |
Under The Radar
A solid, enjoyable folk listen that is perfect for optimism in the sunshine, and, hell, we all need a bit of that right now
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