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- Summary: A collection of some songs recorded for the Peel Sessions over the past ten years by Will Oldham under his various pseudonyms.
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- Record Label: Drag City
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Jan 29, 2016On Pond Scum, these songs seem to escape fully formed from Oldham's soul, even the no-frills cover of Prince's "The Cross," and if one has to take an educated guess about which Bonnie "Prince" Billy we get on this album, it's certain that what he has to say is well worth hearing.
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Mar 2, 2016Pond Scum, Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s latest offering, excavates rare artifacts--performances occasionally eclipsing the original album tracks, especially given the vocal clarity to underscore Oldham’s lyrical virtuosity.
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Mar 25, 2016The album itself feels like a lost Oldham classic, it’s a joy to hear him tackling some of the more obscure corners of his repertoire in such an intimate fashion.
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Jan 25, 2016Pond Scum has enough variety to be pleasing to longtime fans and covers enough ground to be a great introduction to the man’s work for newcomers.
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The WireMar 8, 2016Oldham's rewriting of his own songs sometimes turns into a queasy compulsion.... There are some stunning revisions in this collection. [Mar 2016, p.62]
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UncutFeb 29, 2016Pond Scum is an archive project, albeit one delivered with all the caginess we expect from this most capricious of singer-songwriters. [Apr 2016, p.90]
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Jan 25, 2016Though it has merit in the strength of its content, Pond Scum may be only one for the collectors.
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Feb 3, 2016
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