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- Record Label: Saddle Creek Records
- Release Date: Feb 10, 2023
- Summary: The third full-length release for Katherine Paul as Black Belt Eagle Scout was mixed by Nicholas Wilbur.
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- Record Label: Saddle Creek Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Feb 10, 2023Paul infuses these portraits with poetic, often solitary, grace, manifesting her resilience in searing, distorted guitar textures and her longing in wounded, doleful melodies.
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Feb 9, 2023Black Belt Eagle Scout teaches us, guides, and inspires us, all the while dazzling us with lush atmospheres, seismic rhythms, and a voice that unfurls from another and perhaps a better world.
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Feb 9, 2023Paul centers the intricacies of home/coming across 12 pristine tracks, each pushing post-rock to its most beautiful extreme.
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Feb 16, 2023These are love songs to a community and a lineage that taught Paul how to survive.
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Mar 16, 2023These songs blister and spiral and swirl in early 21st century guitar-centric, indie-fashion. ... In an album where Black Belt Eagle Scout celebrates their home, ["Spaces" is] the song where they finally let the listeners into the house.
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 9, 2023A spectacular squall of uber-MBV sungaze dream-pop propels indigenous Swinowish/Inupiaq woman Katherine Paul's jouney. [Apr 2023, p.79]
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Feb 28, 2023The sound of the album is too monochrome in general, with ballads and epics all drawing from a similar palette. That being said, there are stunning moments too.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Feb 17, 2023The combination of the mild rage of rocks and her whispery chants truly is perfection when it works, found in some songs.
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