A Chorus of Storytellers
- The Album Leaf
- Band Name: The Album Leaf
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Release Date: Feb 2, 2010
- Summary: Recorded in Seattle but remixed in Iceland by Jón Birgisson of Sigur Rós, A Chorus of Storytellers is the fifth album led by multi-instrumentalist Jimmy LaValle of the Album Leaf.
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Indie, Electronic, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 19
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Mixed: 6 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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80However, as the album progresses, with its mix of violins, guitar, synths and fitful percussion, a paradoxical mood and feel is established – desolate yet comforting, glacial yet warm, remote yet intimate, never more so than on Summer Fog.
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A Chorus of Storytellers is an evocative, full-bodied record from a band nearing the peak of their powers. [Winter 2010, p.68]
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LaValle's been trading in spitshined tonal conventions and vacuum-sealed beauty for quite some time now, and this might well be his best effort at putting it to record. But there are already three Album Leaf LPs that do this exact same thing, and the prospect of him doing that thing slightly better simply fails to excite.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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