Little Heater
- Catherine Irwin
- Band Name: Catherine Irwin
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
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Oct 1, 201285Arriving ten years after her solo debut, Little Heater has managed to take the anachronistic qualities of Irwin's sound and imbue them with real relevance. [No.91 p.55]
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Oct 26, 201280These stark, largely unadorned folk-country songs are given added edge by Irwin's faintly metallic voice, with delicate shadings from the like of producer and multi-instrumental wizz Tara Jane O'Neil and pedal steeler Marc Orleans. [Dec 2012, p.72]
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Sep 27, 201280The arrival of Little Heater, only Irwin's second solo album, is therefore a notable event, and nothing about it disappoints.
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Sep 27, 201280Little Heater is a lovely, evocative album that touches the heart, the soul, and the intellect with equal force; this is the work of a singular artist working at the top of her game and it demands to be heard.
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Sep 27, 201270Little Heater is a document that could only have come from her end of the road. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.124]
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Sep 27, 201270At its best, Little Heater transports you to a dark world full of pain, loss and music so beautiful that it makes the trip not just worthwhile, but necessary.
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Feb 19, 201360Though hardly the type of platter meant to accompany any sort of festive gathering, Little Heater still manages to stir the senses.
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Dec 3, 201260Banjo, pedal steel, and fiddle show up on cue here and there with lovely results, but never to the point of distracting from the album's foundation of Irwin and her acoustic guitar just singing away their woes to each other.
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Sep 27, 201260Irwin peppers her songs with Southern Gothic characters, while her keening, naive voice suggests remote mountains where dark deeds are the norm. [Oct 23012, p.94]
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Sep 27, 201260These intimate performances are not made for the masses or background listening, and are all the more potent for that.