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Dec 7, 2011Languid, pastoral, and remarkably serene (each track segues into each other like ice melting on a spring pond), Diamond Mine is so unobtrusive that it barely registers.... A lovely collection of ambient folk songs.
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Apr 7, 2011This is a collaboration that makes sense. Both share a taste for a rather languid tempo, that of small-town life and the more tender, bittersweet emotions; and theirs is a pairing that's complementary.
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Apr 7, 2011The two together make magic: the songs don't feel like they've been crafted, rather that they just floated, fully-formed, into existence. Like the people Diamond Mine talks about, the songs aren't any one thing: they just are.
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May 20, 2011It's clear that none of these songs really require amplification, that they, in fact, drive the beauty of Diamond Mine. Still, Hopkins's deft touch somehow adds to, rather than subtracts from, their elemental simplicity
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MojoMay 18, 2011The very subtlety of Hon Hoopkins' production may be why it sounds so unique. [May 2011, p.114]
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Apr 7, 2011The final results are of such subtle beauty they take the breath clean away.
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Q MagazineMay 18, 2011The effect is evocative if nothing less than a 21st-century Caledonian Spirit Of Eden. [May 2011, p.119]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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May 27, 2011
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May 21, 2020One of the most emotional albums I've ever listened to. Short and incredibly sweet.
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Jun 12, 2011