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  • Summary: The latest solo release for David Pajo as Papa M features just acoustic guitars and drums.
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  1. Aug 20, 2018
    80
    A Broke Moon Rises is a good record from a great musician, but if nothing else it’s worth hearing just to share in that moment.
  2. The Wire
    Aug 15, 2018
    80
    None of the pieces seems to reach a destination, and are all the more poignant for that. [Sep 2018, p.58]
  3. Aug 15, 2018
    80
    A Broke Moon Rises takes a totally different tone and is all the better for it. The overall impression of sitting with A Broke Moon Rises is one of music being created as a comfort blanket: Pajo weaving a warm, familiar and enveloping sound world in order to soothe himself. Fortunately, it’s a generously proportioned blanket that can cover the listener too.
  4. Aug 17, 2018
    80
    The result is a record that is powerfully alluring and timeless.
  5. Aug 15, 2018
    70
    To some ears, this album might sound like demos or unfinished sketches, but its simplicity seems to be Pajo's way of saying that sometimes it's best to appreciate things for what they are, and just be happy you're alive. He seems to be at peace, and that carries a great amount of significance.
  6. Mojo
    Aug 15, 2018
    60
    A Broke Moon Rises sheds a gentle but persistent light in the darkness. [Sep 2018, p.86]
  7. Aug 24, 2018
    60
    A Broke Moon Rises isn’t pastoral like Bon Iver, and it doesn’t trade in the woe, guts, and glory of an Explosions in the Sky. It’s folk rock as an aging human in all its requisite fallibility and disgrace, pushing through torrents of doubt and disillusionment to a place where their essential spirit can take wing.