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- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2011
- Summary: Ben Chasny's psych-folk project releases its seventh album in five years, producing a more playful, atmospheric sound with Ben's trademark twangy, country-folk feel.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 3 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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MojoApr 6, 2011Ben Chasny's annual solo folk extravaganza. [March 2011, p. 95]
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Feb 23, 2011Asleep on the Floodplain stands as a brilliantly constructed bridge between SOOA's For Octavio Paz and Sun Awakens, yet moves deftly and pronouncedly forward into previously uncharted terrain.
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Feb 18, 2011Its gentleness is affecting and transporting and the whole album is carefully constructed and beautifully performed. It is also brilliantly sequenced--a work that very much needs to be digested as a whole.
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Mar 4, 2011Asleep on the Floodplain is more than an acoustic showcase.
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The WireMar 1, 2011There's a sparse but fluid lyricism to Chasny's tumbling, post-Takoma guitar style. [Feb 2011, p.56]
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Apr 12, 2011Ben Chasny's solo venture continues to tackle folk as if the 1970s never ended.
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Mar 2, 2011For me it doesn't work; it stomps on the fragility he's been building up for 40 minutes. But because it comes together so slowly, it's of a piece with this record's careful mood.
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