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9.0
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9.0 |
musicOMH
Zach Condon rebalances his sound, introducing church organs alongside the signature brass and delivers exquisitely moving results in the process
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9.0
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9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
For so many years a poster boy for wanderlust, how ironic that Condon’s embrace of a slower, stiller life has produced, quite possibly, his finest record
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8.4
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8.4 |
Paste Magazine
Zach Condon returns from the wintry wilds of Norway with his first album of new material since 2019
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8.2
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8.2 |
Northern Transmissions
Every song here sounds like the whole album was recorded with a strict plan, but in fact, it was a total DIY-mess that took a whole year of mixing
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Meditative and rapturous, Condon has crafted a hymnbook of his own with Hadsel. Buried in a trance-like state whilst creating the record, Condon has achieved a feat of wondrous musical clarity
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
Hadsel sounds both ethereal and earthly. Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
"It's not too late to find where you are," he sings on The Tern; Hadsel seems to tremble on the brink of that revelation. Print edition only
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8.0
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The Guardian
The ‘unfathomable beauty’ of a remote Norwegian island has inspired Zach Condon to create a triumphant celebration of life
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Hadsel doesn’t sound like an old friend in the way, but, despite its loneliness, it’ll invite you into its warm embrace all the same
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7.2
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7.2 |
Pitchfork
The band’s sixth album is familiar and intimate, updated with touches of synth and drum machine but still rooted in melancholy brass and Zach Condon’s distinct baritone
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7.0
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7.0 |
No Ripcord
Rather than use too many words, Condon lets the life-affirming melancholy of his arrangements speak for him
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Beirut has turned inward on Hadsel and it’s an affirming, warm kind of music to serve as a soundtrack for the next valley surely coming for us all
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
Wistful troubadour Zach Condon returns with Hadsel, an album of well-written songs that feel a little too familiar
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