Occasion for Song - The Black Swans
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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release for the Ohio-based band is its first without contributions from the group's late violinist Noel Sayre, who drowned in 2008.
  • Record Label: Misra
  • Genre(s): Folk, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Country-Folk
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Aug 1, 2012
    80
    In recognizing this missing piece [violinist Noel Sayre] straight on, Occasion for Song may finally have found a way forward.
  2. Sep 7, 2012
    80
    There's nothing but clouds on Occasion for Song, but rather than uninviting it's eminently listenable; an unflinching, graceful, truthful exploration of how to go on living when you've lost a friend, of how to recognize a world that suddenly seems that much darker and less hopeful.
  3. Aug 1, 2012
    80
    The Ohio-based band led by singer/songwriter Jerry DeCicca bears its share of melancholy and then some on their fifth album, but so do a million and one other indie bands, and none of them come anywere close to evoking the same sort of sad-sack super session [like one with Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, Stuart Staples from Tindersticks, and Mickey Newbury].
  4. Aug 2, 2012
    60
    Sadly the momentum's not maintained once DeCicca and company quickly slip back into their plaintive posturing.

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