User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The latest release for the British folk-rock guitarist was inspired by the solo voyages by Vital Alsar and William Wills.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Room40
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 5 out of 6
-
Mixed: 1 out of 6
-
Negative: 0 out of 6
-
The WireAug 9, 2017This is an album, and a genre, to ponder--one that remains musically rich, deep and mysterious. [Aug 2017, p.50]
-
Jul 31, 2017Rafts may seem conceptually like a retrospective or statement of purpose, and it holds up nicely as a portrait, but it should also be considered a refinement, wading further away from readymade images of the tropics and into the depth of the traveler’s imagination.
-
Jul 31, 2017Cooper ventures further out, navigating abstract naval routes plotted by lonely hearts and plagued by daydreams, his tides of burbling static and deftly deployed lap-steel influenced by the solitary missions of real-life sea salts such as Vital Alsar and William Willis, their adventures a certain metaphor for Cooper’s own singular musical path.
-
Aug 23, 2017Tempting as it is to try, given the linear nature of both the album’s first half and the journeys it references, Raft resists being poured into any one narrative container.
-
Jul 31, 2017With Raft, he drifts past all of the above touchstones and ventures a bit further out, with each of the album’s seven tracks delving deeper into the 74-year-old musician’s idiosyncratic sound.
-
MojoJul 31, 2017Raft is a woozy drift between euphoria and unease. [Aug 2017, p.31]
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of