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Apr 12, 2016As a whole, Love Letter for Fire is the sonic equivalent of sitting in front of a campfire on the starry night with a couple of close friends strumming their acoustic guitar; it’s bucolic, simple, and guaranteed to delight.
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Apr 15, 2016The result is Beam’s best release since In The Reins, with a far more dynamic batch of songs, and a wider introduction to Hoop’s compelling and naturally chameleonic songwriting style.
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May 3, 2016Like most of the album, “Soft Place to Land” is precise in language, but not in meaning. The album’s songwriting strength lies primarily in this sort of poesy, as effective as it is understated, and resisting paraphrase.
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MagnetApr 15, 2016Both sound retrospective but bound together, that introspection sounds loving and lovely. [No. 130, p.53]
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Apr 14, 2016Love Letter for Fire sounds like Beam and Hoop were born to work together. The yin and yang of their individual perspectives fit together marvelously, and this rests comfortably with the best of both their recorded works.
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Apr 14, 2016A nurturing listen, which leaves the pair tangled in each other’s metaphors; hopeless romantics forever.
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Apr 13, 2016There’s a curious congruence to the duo’s harmonies that brings their songs to unique life, nowhere more so than when their voices take perfectly divergent paths over the melodic lilt of “The Lamb You Lost”.
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UncutApr 12, 2016A deceptive simple, calm record, Love Letter... sounds both intuitive and direct, and any wrangling along the collaborative way is undetectable. [May 2016, p.80]
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Apr 15, 2016It’s Beam and Hoop who manage to remain the focus of the proceedings, giving the album its low-key lustre. We can only hope that there will be another volume of similarly cerebral hymns to follow.
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Apr 18, 2016Instead of a love letter to consuming blazes, Hoop's and Beam's collection appeals to our individual internal pilot lights: those softly smoldering flames that illuminate moments of beauty in ourselves, in each other, and beyond.
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Apr 15, 2016The result is an album that pays proper respect to some of the classic duets Beam grew up loving while also hinting at a promising partnership between he and Hoop.
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Apr 13, 2016Beam and Hoop convey their emotions sweetly, offering their own imperfect glimpses of an old theme told in new ways.
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Apr 28, 2016This is a very strong album about love, written by two people who aren’t in love.
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Apr 14, 2016Overall, there aren’t enough risks taken on Love Letter For Fire to make it a truly outstanding album; it’s a very pleasant, comfortable journey rather than an especially memorable one.
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Apr 12, 2016Love Letter for Fire shows what can happen when two near-strangers explore each other’s deepest emotions and private pains in song: They may still ultimately remain strangers, but they’ve created something profound in the process.
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Q MagazineApr 13, 2016The two have a great dynamic--potentially even a special one--its just not fully realised here. [Jun 2016, p.108]
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MojoApr 12, 2016There's no white-hot creative explosion, just a gentle simmer. [May 2016, p.88]