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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 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 12, 2011Our Blood doesn't leave me wanting more, it doesn't leave me drooling over another listen, and it sure doesn't leave me interested in more of Richard Buckner's work. But on the same measure, it doesn't leave me sick or angry.
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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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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 3, 2011His latest, Our Blood, isn't likely to raise his profile much. But that's okay.
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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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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.
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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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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.