Destroyer Of The Void - Blitzen Trapper
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • 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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. 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. 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. 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]
  4. 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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. 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