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Florine [EP] - Julianna Barwick
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  • Summary: The second EP for the singer was inspired by music she heard in church.

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  1. Pitchfork
    82
    Florine feels bracingly intimate and original, in its hieroglyphic way.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    80
    Dizzying and beautiful at once, it is unlike anything else from 2009.
  3. No Ripcord
    80
    Barwick's angelic voice channels whale song, her textless mantras capture a serene ambience, and her ear for arrangement are far beyond her years. Most impressive, though, is Barwick's relentless inventiveness: Florine is unlike anything you will hear this year.

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  1. hydrawithears
    10
    Before the release of her beautiful and unearthly The Magic Place, Julianna Barwick amazed the world with her second EP titled Florine. It’s really hard to describe Julianna’s ambient music without using cheap metaphors but, hey, Florine transports you to another dimension composed almost only of the looped and processed voice of the ethereal singer. Cloudbank sounds like a New Age lament and is deeply melancholic. Choose, on the other hand, is joyful and invites to a journey into unknown. Anjos shows harmony between Julianna’s voice and the accompanying piano. Even though Florine is based on repetition, there is never a feeling of fatigue as the album bursts with brilliance.… Expand
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