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80 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is Slint guitarist David Pajo's first solo LP under his own name (well, at least half of his own name).

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Spin
    91
    A lovely, eerie album that plays like a digital memory of a lo-fi lullaby. [Aug 2005, p.103]
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  2. Uncut
    80
    Pajo is not, and will never be, a great singer.... His guitar playing, though, is as quietly inventive as ever. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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  3. Mojo
    80
    Undoubtedly his definitive statement--not just as a guitarist, but as a songwriter and vocalist. [Jul 2005, p.96]
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  4. The Guardian
    60
    This is about as close to ambient as a singer-songwriter can get without mixing himself out altogether.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. jyotirmayad
    10
    The best ambient music of today. Instinctively sure of itself yet decidedly 'unassuming.'
  2. WayneB
    9
    Versatile, cohiesive work of beauty....ahhhhh.... if Elliott Smith had only relocated to Louisville instead of L.A. he might still be of this soil and sounding like this. David Christian Pajo is to be commended for this 2005 masterpiece!!!… Expand
  3. PaulN
    5
    An album of slight promise which for the most part is unable to rise above, weighted by overly dominant production, beneath which songs of morbid mediocrity sit. Worthy of purchase, however, solely to sample the distant echo of Roman Candle era Elliott Smith on … Expand

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