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MojoJun 10, 2015The 6ft 5in, broad-shouldered Gibson finally sounds the part. [Jul 2015, p.90]
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UncutJun 3, 2015Singular and unsettlingly sophisticated. [Jul 2015, p.76]
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Jun 9, 2015Carnation restores some of the eerie, discombobulated feel of his debut.
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Jun 4, 2015It may take some perseverance to get on board here with Gibson’s vision--but, if you achieve that, then you’ll be rewarded with a record that’s as beguiling as it is strange.
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Jun 2, 2015If there’s any minor quibble, it’s that Carnation stacks its front half with the hits, leaving the second bit a bit anemic.
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Jun 2, 2015If it often gets over on mood rather than message, Gibson turns out to be an impressively good mood guy, and the production (by Gibson and Randall Dunn) gets the details right, making Carnation sound like a middle-of-the-night album for a man whose sense of style is matched only by his knack for poor choices.
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Jun 9, 2015Carnation is at its best when Gibson unabashedly embraces his eccentricities.
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Q MagazineJun 2, 2015Gibson's music has a strange timelessness faded and well-mulched, though there are moments when the mood proves a little too sludgy to be memorable. [Jul 2015, p.106]
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Jun 2, 2015A frustrating album whose unremitting melancholy frequently feels like an endurance test.
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Jun 2, 2015The problem isn't with Carnation's expansive instrumental palette, but with the way that the record struggles to use its sounds to captivate, often letting each part float away into the ether.
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Jun 2, 2015On Carnation, he tries and fails to be something other than himself.