Ascent - Six Organs of Admittance
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  • Summary: The latest release from the band led by Ben Chasny was inspired by a dream about constructing a spacecraft on the moon.

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  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 25
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 19, 2012
    80
    Mysterious and enfolding, Ascent seduces. [Oct 2012, p.90]
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  2. Blurt Magazine
    Sep 20, 2012
    80
    These eight songs are indeed everything you'd expect from this reconfigured version of Comets on Fire with Chasny at the controls. It's a purely transcendental synthesis of heavy folk meditation and interstellar overdrive.
  3. Kerrang!
    Sep 4, 2012
    80
    After listening to Ascent, you'll be hard-pressed to locate a better batch of mesmerising mind-expanding jams this year. [25 Aug 2012, p.54]
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  4. The Observer (UK)
    Aug 20, 2012
    60
    This is an album for frenziedly colouring outside the lines. But there is calm, too.

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