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- Summary: Climate change is the theme behind the second full-length release for the solo project of Rebecca Foon that features contributions from Warren Ellis.
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- Record Label: Constellation
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Mar 30, 2017This is a quietly powerful, and intensely beautiful, record whose contemplations will bed themselves in your mind and hopefully move you towards caring about the issues raised as deeply as she clearly does.
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Mar 30, 2017Potentially one of the most beautiful records you’ll hear this year. It makes sweet misery out of melody while articulating a forlorn yet rousing sense of hope.
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Mar 30, 2017It's a spiritually holistic, potent dose of manna fit to feed a weathered movement.
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MojoMar 30, 2017The geo-political subtext only adds gravity to Foon's already compellingly brooding soundscapes. [Apr 2017, p.95]
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Apr 6, 2017Rebecca Foon has managed to take what could have been a narrow exercise in chamber music and crafted something with real emotional depth and scope.
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Mar 31, 2017A Common Truth is mountainous and haunting, yet also exhibits a certain vulnerability.
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The WireJun 2, 2017A Common Truth is far more intimate, focusing on arrangements and whispered songs erupting around Foon’s distinctly emotive cello. Due to the shifting blend of fear, despair, togetherness, hope and anger that characterises the battle for climate change awareness, her song cycle aptly seeps its way into all nooks and crannies of the emotional spectrum. [Apr 2017, p.55]
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