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  • Summary: This is the debut album for the side project of David Heumann, lead singer of Arboretum and Lungfish's bass player Nathan Bell.
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  1. Filter
    82
    The final product does its players incredible justice, as each pluck and stoke resonates to a chilling effect. [Winter 2008, p.100]
  2. It’s post-rock burning its beret, Americana for the post-apocalypse.
  3. This is a wonderful album, easily as good, though perhaps less immediately accessible, than last year’s "Rites of Uncovering."
  4. Mojo
    60
    The air of gentle rustic drama is enhanced by discreet flourishes of trumpet, vibraphone, bowed banjo, amplified kalimba and quartz singing bowl. [Mar 2008, p.113]
  5. It feels neither like redemption nor realization; rather, it's just a reminder that--for the past 45 minutes--you've been sitting alone in a room with stable gases. Nothing has changed.
  6. Uncut
    40
    it's full of lovely moments, but it nees more edge to keep you from snoozing. [Apr 2008, p.91]
  7. Although the guitar sounds are very pretty and sublime it’s tough to listen to an album where the songs follow the same exact boring formula.

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