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Aug 29, 2011Ultimately, Our Blood must be graded on what it is (rather than what it could have been), and it is quite good.
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Aug 26, 2011Our Blood, like most great singer-songwriter efforts, is open to interpretation, but it's the record's malleable sense of emotion that lends it its peculiar gravity.
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UncutAug 18, 2011An austere beauty. [Aug 2011, p.81]
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Aug 9, 2011Ultimately, Williams never made a record as intense and as beautiful as Our Blood.
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Aug 9, 2011These songs store well more than a half-hour of reward and intrigue-- appropriate enough for a record that had to be made three times.
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Aug 1, 2011Our Blood, with its tattered, frayed grace, reflects Buckner's compellingly listenable, weary yet stubborn poetic journey, for answers to questions -- both past and and present, elliptical and enormous --that lie just beyond his grasp.
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Sep 15, 2011Buckner has composed an album that grows more emotionally astonishing with each play, and, at 36 minutes, one that's entirely too brief.
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Aug 3, 2011His latest, Our Blood, isn't likely to raise his profile much. But that's okay.
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Under The RadarAug 4, 2011The cosmic elements decorating those songwriting chops, the dead-on but unpredictable arrangement touches, the warm and present recording--they're all present here. No impasses, only breakthroughs. [Jul 2011, p.92]
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Aug 2, 2011He has grabbed our attention immediately and reminded us not only what we loved about him, but what tricks he's learned while we weren't paying attention.
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Jul 29, 2011Old Blood offers a glimpse into the world of Richard Buckner that serves as an ideal starting point for new listeners.
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Jul 19, 2011With pedal steel by Buddy Cage (Dylan's Blood on the Tracks), ominous percussion by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, and Buckner's usual subtle craftsmanship, he creates wasted-night rhapsodies that demand you lean in close--however warily.
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Aug 2, 2011While the album at times requires careful attention to fully attach to, it's modestly flavored with a warmth and ease that naturally rings true.