Destroyer Of The Void - Blitzen Trapper
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76 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

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  • Summary: Portland-based Blitzen Trapper brings a haunting, ethereal touch to folk rock with their new album, blending twangy rock riffs with bittersweet piano-laced melodies to create beautiful stylistic textures.

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  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. The A.V. Club
    83
    Void is an album by a band that’s mature enough to know what it wants and to focus its sound, but there’s a restlessness to these tracks that indicates it won’t be long before Blitzen Trapper strikes out for new territory.
  2. Urb
    80
    You would think that all this grandiose genre-juggling would play out like a collection of songs, but it all works well together and plays like a cohesive album.
  3. Uncut
    80
    The 12 artfully crafted songs here suggest Blitzen Trapper should now be judged in the elevated company of Wilco, Brendan Benson and The Raconteurs. [Jul 2010, p.113]
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  4. Under The Radar
    60
    While there are definitely a handful of superb tracks you'll still be rocking two years from now; there are a bunch you won't. [Spring 2010, p.62]
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  1. KundK
    9
    A self-assured collection of twelve songs spanning more than a half a dozen genres (folk, progressive, alt-country, psychedelic, pop...) yet functioning as a cohesive whole, pastoral and strange simultaneously.… Expand

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