- Record Label: Constellation
- Release Date: Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013To See More Light is a masterpiece that organically and coherently blends Stetson's avant-garde playing and dark, complex themes with accessible and compelling compositions that bring a ray of hope not just for the characters in his underlying narrative, but for the future of music.
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May 7, 2013The shifting contours of Stetson’s music make for unpredictable and challenging but frequently awe-inspiring terrain.
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May 6, 2013Stetson very literally breathes life into his instrument, and in turn, like the statue transformed from stone to flesh, his music softens our hardened selves--it reminds us that we were once made, too.
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May 1, 2013Vol 3: To See More Light is his strongest and most cohesive collection in his career, aided in large part by the head-turning vocals of Justin Vernon, who appears on four of the 11 tracks on the album.
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May 2, 2013With additional help from fellow musician and frequent collaborator Justin Vernon (whose vocals are the only overdubbed aspect of the music), the songs on To See More Light are as devastatingly personal as they are emphatically otherworldly--inhuman sounding even. This stark dichotomy of sound and intent throws Stetson’s music into austere relief.
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May 7, 2013To See More Light shows impressive range.
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Apr 29, 2013Like most free jazz, it's music of the moment, a work of granular epiphanies that accrete, finally, into a magnificent whole.
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MojoApr 25, 2013With electronic ace Ben frost's eerily beautiful final chapter is the perfect soundtrack for a dinner party to which only Ed Gein, Jack London and Catherine The Great are invited. [May 2013, p.94]
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Apr 25, 2013With New History Warfare, Vol. 3, Stetson explores scorched landscapes and heavenly scenes alike with his stylized playing.
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Apr 25, 2013Volume 3 is essential listening and another triumph.
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Apr 25, 2013Despite the limited tools, he evokes everything from jazz and doom metal to techno and classical music, often simultaneously.
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May 21, 2013In two albums, the man shatters our conceptions of music--and in the finale of his trilogy, he glues the pieces back together and hands the end product back to us, thereby redefining the word ‘musician’ in a single gesture.
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Under The RadarApr 25, 2013Stetson has ventured into uncharted territory, and the heretofore-unheard sounds that he's brought back are utterly bewitching. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.95]
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May 29, 2013The album is stacked with jaw-dropping moments, underpinned by seismic emotional shifts.
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Apr 29, 2013To See More Light is another strong effort from Colin Stetson, and a familiar one. Should there be another entry in the New History Warfare series, Stetson would benefit from a broadening of his tactical approach.
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Apr 26, 2013Vernon guest-spots aside, though, To See More Light matches its predecessor in terms of quality.
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The WireApr 25, 2013Volume 3, produced by Ben Frost, shades closer to songwriting in places, as Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and other guest on harmony vocals. [Apr 2013, p.57]
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