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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the former Yuck member was recorded by Peter Walsh.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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The WireNov 6, 2020Supple openendedness of texture and the cyclic reoccurrence become one and the same as the music goes on and on – liberating words in time, rather than setting them in stone. [Sep 2020, p.46]
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Q MagazineAug 4, 2020The way Blumberg expands and contracts the title track four times over the record, or filters a warped background shriek into Silence Breaker, underlines his experimental drives, his desire to push through sound barriers. [Sep 2020, p.107]
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Aug 4, 2020It’s Blumberg’s longest commitment to a way of working, which is just as well because it is brilliant.
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UncutAug 4, 2020Like a rolling stone made of avant-garde music and sadness. [Sep 2020, p.27]
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Aug 4, 2020This all makes On&On Blumberg’s most accomplished and also his most mystifying work to date.
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Aug 4, 2020Blumberg asserts that even for the creator, a song can be whatever you need it to be in the moment, a vessel for self-exploration. On&On shows that he’s wholly enmeshed his songwriting and improvisation in a way that feels unique to him.
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Aug 27, 2020While tracks like the fractured, jarring "Sidestep Summer" are as uneasy as Blumberg's previous two records, On&On is ultimately much more hopeful, if not quite inviting or accessible.