- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2011
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MojoApr 6, 2011Ben Chasny's annual solo folk extravaganza. [March 2011, p. 95]
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UncutMar 29, 2011Six Organs may be a stylistic cul de sac for Chasny but, on this evidence, who needs a way out? [Apr 2011, p.92]
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Mar 4, 2011Asleep on the Floodplain is more than an acoustic showcase.
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Feb 24, 2011Though he may have made this record about himself, for himself, I believe he is speaking to all of us, imploring us to remember.
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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 23, 2011With Asleep On the Floodplain, Chasny returns not just to his personal roots, but also to the roots of popular music itself.
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Feb 22, 2011Here, then, are 10 more steps on the path, 10 more keys in the song of life and death.
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Feb 18, 2011Asleep on the Floodplain is billed as a return to that pared-down sound, and it is as close as Chasney has come since to capturing the simple beauty of For Octavio Paz.
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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 9, 2011Chasny has distilled all of his impulses and obsessions-- slow drones and brisk picking, solemn mumbles and cheery riffs, ponderous lyrics, and ruminative instrumentals-- into 43 muted, marvelous minutes.
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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 16, 2011With one foot rooted in tradition, and the other free to roam where it likes, Asleep on the Floodplain is a quietly great effort.
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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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Feb 23, 2011Those of thinkers Catherine Keller and Gaston Bachelard--are more complex than you might at first imagine, making Asleep On The Floodplain an album whose surface you can lazily drift upon or one into which you can dive as deep as your lungs will allow.