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- Summary: Ben Chasny returns with a follow-up to 'School Of The Flower.'
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 12 out of 15
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Mixed: 3 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Under The RadarAs a whole, the songs presented on The Sun Awakens come across as a work of art, evoking a response and then either building or contrasting to it. [#14]
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The Sun Awakens is the record he's been promising. Where School of the Flower was a leap, placing his singing and guitar playing in equal measure -- though there were numerous instrumental pieces -- The Sun Awakens is the place they burst forth, fully entwined, completely formed.
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Alternative PressFinds [Chasny] in peak form. [Aug 2006, p.224]
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The opening seven tracks on The Sun Awakens are probably the strongest sequence of songs on any Six Organs release so far.
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The Sun Awakens" is best described as a doom-folk record, encompassing the thick sludge of hyperdistorted electric guitar as well as the rattle and vibration of double-stopped riffs from his acoustic guitar.
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If you were hoping for a predictable outing from Ben Chasny, you won't find it on The Sun Awakens.
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Half of The Sun Awakens is vigorous and wonderful; half is abhorrent and stultifying.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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MitchellMNov 1, 2006Brilliant.
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KevinKSep 7, 2006
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JeffKJun 15, 2006
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