Smart Flesh - The Low Anthem
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

  • 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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  1. Positive: 22 out of 30
  2. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Feb 23, 2011
    90
    Joyous, pensive, cathartic and hymnal in equal measure, this is the human condition set to music.
  2. Mar 1, 2011
    80
    More downtempo delights from Rhode Islanders. [March 2011, p. 106]
  3. Apr 6, 2011
    80
    For all its romance, this is a record at the sharp end of mortality. [March 2011, p. 96]
  4. 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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