• Record Label: LATE
  • Release Date: Sep 18, 2020
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Mojo
    Sep 15, 2020
    80
    An extraordinary 80-minute concept album. [Oct 2020, p.91]
  2. Uncut
    Sep 15, 2020
    80
    Glorious soundsuite. [Oct 2020, p.37]
  3. Sep 15, 2020
    80
    Cantus, Descant is accessible without ever feeling thoughtless, plays to Davachi's sonic strengths, and provides just enough experimentation and variety to justify its daunting running time. It's a journey worth taking.
  4. Sep 18, 2020
    75
    With Cantus, Descant, Davachi has arrived at maybe her purest distillation of those ideals. The attention to detail is itself a kind of time warp; in its patient hold, the music becomes something entirely new.
  5. The Wire
    Nov 6, 2020
    70
    The first two tracks showcase the oddity of the album’s moods. ... The tension grows to breaking point on the two vocal numbers, “Play The Ghost” and “Canyon Walls”, in which the barest suggestion of melodic form, coalescing out of scatters of organ drone and faded, looping instruments has to provide a support for Davachi’s Grouper-like laryngeal ectoplasm.[Oct 2020, p.52]
  6. Sep 23, 2020
    70
    Overall, while the album certainly has some parts that stunningly wash over you, it has many others that simply wash away.
  7. Sep 15, 2020
    60
    Cantus, Descant is an album that functions as meditative background music, but turn it up and it becomes an unignorable study in sound.

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