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  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Genre(s): Country, Folk, Alt-Country, Americana, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Neo-Traditional Folk, Indie Folk
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Clash Music
    Feb 23, 2011
    90
    Joyous, pensive, cathartic and hymnal in equal measure, this is the human condition set to music.
  2. Absolute Punk (Staff reviews)
    Feb 22, 2011
    89
    Welcome to The Low Anthem's Smart Flesh, where folk music doesn't need to be reinvented for it to come alive – just performed. If you're looking for a solid folk spooker to open the year, your search ends here.
  3. The Guardian
    Feb 23, 2011
    60
    At heart this is a dustily traditional collection of folk songs, their straightforward rhythms and plain instrumentation intermittently embellished with musical saw and pump organ, their lyrics of loss, redemption and death occasionally startling, with such vivid imagery as that of a Bible in a bath of formaldehyde.

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