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Enderness

A.A. Bondy

Enderness

Fourth solo album and first in eight years from the Alabama alt.folk singer-songwriter and former member of rock band Verbana

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Fat Possum
UK Release date
10/05/2019
US Release date
10/05/2019
  1. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Listening to the twilit, singularly unsettling tunes on Enderness, it’s hard to believe that A.A. Bondy started out dealing in fairly standard issue, dust and cowpat-splattered alt. country fare
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    It's Bondy's most disturbing record, but equally his most memorable. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A.A. Bondy makes a dead-eyed and deadpan assessment of the ways in which we are amusing ourselves to death with his new album, Enderness
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  4. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Enderness is an uncomfortable listen, embodying a world numb to its trauma – dissociated and distracted, even as it picks at fresh wounds. A troubling and clear-sighted elegy to a fading, intoxicated world
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  5. 8.0 |   The 405

    Enderness overflows our hearts with a mesmerizing experience that takes the cake as the most cunning listen of 2019 so far
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  6. 7.3 |   Gig Soup

    The elusive Alabama songwriter returns after eight years with a slightly new sound but an unchanged knack for brilliant songwriting
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  7. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    On his first album in eight years, the Alabama singer-songwriter turns from folk music to synths, drum machines, and internet speak, but the sorrow at the heart of his music is timeless
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  8. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Enderness is more of a brooding country-soul set, with the emphasis on soul. It's also more abstract. Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   American Songwriter

    Even if there isn’t much meat here and the concepts are obtuse at best, the oddly titled Enderness (the beginning “T” is conspicuously, and intentionally, missing), taps into an enticing, low-key vibe that’s just as satisfying and far more personal
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  10. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    There’s haunting grace to the circling synthesisers and numbed narratives of songs like Fentanyl Freddie and I’ll Never Know that builds into something disturbing and compelling
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