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- Summary: The eight-track album for the singer-songwriter features the nine and half minute long "The Drunken Boat."
- Record Label: Team Love
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative, Singer-Songwriter
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Positive: 5 out of 8
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Mixed: 3 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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UncutDense and challenging, with an unmistakable humanist undertow, ...Snow is a riveting trip. [Nov 2009, p.90]
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Songs this assured are rare to hear with such consistency on one album, and it is a shame that there are one or two less-impressive examples that cloud the reception. In the main, though, this is remarkably well-conceived and lovable, a fine continuation.
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“The Drunken Boat” one of the best tracks he’s done to date. The rest of the album isn’t as daring or unique. Joyner mostly follows the "Hotel Lives" template and reaps the same rewards.
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Out Into the Snow is another solid entry in a long career for Joyner, and it seems his place as the dark observer on the indie world's fringe is pretty well set.
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Under The RadarOut Into The Snow dissects the tragedy of the human condition with surgical precision. [Fall 2009, p.72]
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MojoBut judicious daubs of strings, piano, female backing vocals and even a band (on Roll On, a surprise boisterous finale) reach out and the lyrics follow suit - venturing out into snow is a metaphor for change. [Jan 2010, p. 104]
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When Joyner’s at his best, he can break hearts in the most hopeful way possible; in these moments, he is as reinvigorating as a much-needed cry. But most of the songs on this album lack this quality, instead coming off as contrived and, as a result, harder to relate to.