The Ridge
by Sarah Neufeld
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  1. Custom_Concerns
    Mar 29, 2016
    7
    After her atmospheric, moody collaboration with Colin Stetson with last year's Never Were the Way She Was, Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld is back with another mostly instrumental neo-classical record. The Ridge is devoid of Stetson's almost percussionistic saxophone playing that gave the last record so much oomph, but Neufeld proves here that her violin strokes are just as entrancingAfter her atmospheric, moody collaboration with Colin Stetson with last year's Never Were the Way She Was, Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld is back with another mostly instrumental neo-classical record. The Ridge is devoid of Stetson's almost percussionistic saxophone playing that gave the last record so much oomph, but Neufeld proves here that her violin strokes are just as entrancing as before. While it is perhaps lacking in ambition, this record is very solid. If you enjoyed Never Were the Way She Was or if you want particularly engrossing background music, this album should not disappoint.

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
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  1. Dusted Magazine
    Mar 17, 2016
    80
    [The final track is] less antic and virtuoso than the earlier tracks, but a good deal more touching. Elsewhere Neufeld jets off for the stratosphere, technical dexterity gleaming in a rarified, surgically clean space. Here she sinks into a rich, loamy here and now, luxuriating in slow exploration of certainties.
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  2. No Ripcord
    Mar 7, 2016
    80
    The talent, confident and imagination on display throughout this album makes it a must-listen, a chance to let your mind wander and to lose yourself in an incredible plangency of strings.
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  3. Pitchfork
    Mar 4, 2016
    69
    Though compositionally The Ridge feels less exploratory that Neufield’s previous work, it is still a moving document of her engaging, virtuosic playing.
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