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- Summary: The first release in seven years for the New Zealand artist Nick Harte was influenced by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake .
- Record Label: Stars & Letters Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, Dream Pop
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Positive: 3 out of 7
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Feb 18, 2014Guilt Mirror’s musical confusion overall is shattering, there are moments of violence, others of beautiful fragility, and it’s a great big mess of ideas all thrown against a wall until they’re smashed into tiny pieces... lucky wall.
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Feb 18, 2014Musically, Guilt Mirrors is all over the map in the best possible way.
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Feb 18, 2014Despite the album's daunting length, Harte rewards listeners with some of his most affecting and expressive music yet.
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Feb 18, 2014His strengths as a songwriter occasionally break through this morass, but the album is overwhelmingly concerned with anger and confusion.
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Feb 19, 2014Guilt Mirrors covers different facets of Harte’s unfiltered work ethic, cobbled together into an unpredictable jumble of distinctive idiosyncrasies that somehow brings more clarity into his thought process.
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Feb 19, 2014As generous as Guilt Mirrors might seem, it puts an oppressive onus on the listener to find it.
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Feb 25, 2014The fact that it’s alienating, strange, impossible to get through and occasionally radically boring isn’t a slight, because that’s not the point. It’s too much and too real and too close and too far away.