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- Summary: The Brooklyn-based singer is minimalist in her music, using piano, drums, and her voice to make haunting songs--often drawing comparisons to Enya.
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- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Mar 14, 2011Julianna Barwick is crafting gorgeously effecting sounds in a way that nobody has quite heard before, far beyond the snickering Enya comparisons or the reductive ties to Eno's ambience, this isn't music for thinking or studying, this is just music for living.
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Feb 23, 2011The Magic Place, her first album for Asthmatic Kitty, stands above her earlier work in virtually every way.
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Feb 24, 2011It's Barwick's most evocative instrument, one that sparkly piano notes can only help fill the room for, and one with which she diminishes too many comparisons to Panda Bear and other leftfield pop musicians.
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Feb 25, 2011It's filled with memorable moments, digital pieces that are essential towards captivating very human moments without battering with the greater scope of things. It all makes this all-encompassing memory trip worth remembering.
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Jun 15, 2011Try as you might to explain Julianna Barwick's incomparable, indescribable music, maybe it's best to let The Magic Place do all the talking, because the results speak for themselves.
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Under The RadarMar 9, 2011There's a warmness and craft there that envelops most cynicism. [Feb. 2011, p. 62]
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Feb 18, 2011In the end, The Magic Place is a beautiful, ambiguous diversion better suited as a companion soundtrack to some experimental film or art installation than as the debut for a promising young singer.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Nov 8, 2011
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Aug 29, 2011
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Dec 5, 2020I’ve never heard anything like The Magic Place and I never will again. Completely unique and beautiful body of work. Unforgettable.
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Jun 30, 2011
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