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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for Timothy Showalter as Strand Of Oaks features contributions from My Morning Jacket’s Tom Blankenship, Carl Broemel, Patrick Hallahan, Bo Koster, as well as Jason Isbell.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 19, 2019Eraserland hits the hardest when Showalter is alone with his limber, echoing acoustic guitar. His voice reminds of other greats; he totally owns it as his own.
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UncutMar 19, 2019As the album proceeds, these simpatico players alternate between swaddling Showalter's introspective songs in downy ambience and dialling up the grandeur, before the Clash-like stomper "Moon Landing," with Jason Isbell blazing on electric guitar, relives the accrued existential torment. [Apr 2019, p.36]
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MojoMar 19, 2019If 2017's Hard Love overreached, Eraserland is a successful recalibration. [Apr 2019, p.91]
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Mar 21, 2019It took some goading from My Morning Jacket members Carl Broemel, Bo Koster, Patrick Hallahan, and Tom Blankenship, who also serve as the backup band, but Showalter found his voice again, and the resulting 11-track set strikes a winning balance between dusty, soul-bearing Midwest folk and sanguine heartland rock.
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Apr 2, 2019Most of Strand of Oaks' tunes would sound good in an arena. Eraserland does not shy from this formula much, especially in the front half.
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Mar 21, 2019Recording with members of My Morning Jacket, Showalter sounds re-energized on this dynamic collection of spaced out power pop and dreamy psych-rock that owes a bit to fellow Philadelphians War on Drugs.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2019The net result is an album that hangs suspended between Earth and the stars. [Jun 2019, p.116]
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