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- Summary: Experiences with being deported and the passage of Brexit influenced the fourth full-length release for the Manchester-based indie rock artist.
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- Record Label: Bella Union
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Sep 7, 2018It’s this constant shifting of tone and genre that makes Deportation Blues such a delight to listen to. That it comes from such a turbulent and traumatic period in its creator’s life is somewhat surprising, because even though this is an album that has its moments of darkness, there’s an irrepressible spirit and joy contained in almost every single song here.
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Aug 20, 2018While Deportation Blues may have come from that place of great turmoil, it also further magnifies the dynamism and creativity that underpins BC Camplight’s work.
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UncutAug 20, 2018Much darker successor to How To Die In The North. Utterly compelling it is too. [Sep 2018, p.26]
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MojoAug 20, 2018It hangs together and, indeed, convincingly documents fragmentation of the individual. [Sep 2018, p.94]
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Aug 24, 2018With Deportation Blues, Brian Christinzio has created his own Big Star 3rd, less druggy but just as much a musical voyage through one man's psyche that travels through darkness while searching for some gleam of healing light. Let's hope he finds it before he makes his next album.
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Q MagazineAug 20, 2018In the second half, the gloom gradually lifts with dreamlike ballads Midnight Ease and Until You Kiss Me, and some of its predecessor's brilliance returns. [Sep 2018, p.110]
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Nov 15, 2018
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