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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length solo release for the violinist who also is a member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Sep 1, 2017
    80
    Moss uses delays and loops, multi-tracking, and other effects to greatly expand the sonic potential of these basic elements, resulting in a sound world that is laser sharp in its focus, but still expansive and dynamic.
  2. The Wire
    Sep 1, 2017
    80
    This is a deep but balanced record, elegant in its melancholia and experimental. [Jul 2017, p.57]
  3. Uncut
    Sep 1, 2017
    70
    While groups like Thee Silver Mt Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor overegg everything, Moss works a far more thoughtful, nuanced seam. [Jul 2017, p.34]
  4. Sep 1, 2017
    70
    The music is often troubling--as well it should be, given the context--but ultimately it is a trenchantly human record that is sweepingly cinematic in scope.
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