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One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur - Jay Farrar And Benjamin Gibbard
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  • Summary: Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard helped write songs for a documentary about Jack Kerouac in 2007. This album is a further expansion of the project.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Austin Chronicle
    89
    Rather than adapting Kerouac's writing into the usual frantic jazz inflections, Farrar lifts lines into rootsy blues and Americana shades, surfacing the author's uniquely skewed and stunning phrases.
  2. The A.V. Club
    75
    If anything, Gibbard sounds far too earthbound. Thematically, though, this combination makes a weird kind of sense.
  3. Rolling Stone
    60
    The lyrics, built from Kerouac's prose, often feel wordy. But the singers channel Kerouac's angst, and when they combine their magnificent voices, as on 'Sea Engines,' the effect is striking: ugliness spun magically into beauty.

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