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This is the kind of album you can live with and hear new things in with each listen, and proves that the album is an art form that still has plenty of life in it.
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Talbot’s vocals mix with the music about them to become another instrument proper; messages are lost in the murk, but the fug’s an appealing blur nonetheless.
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MagnetThe Western Lands offers more bang for your buck. [Fall 2007, p.96]
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MojoThe Western lands proffers a winning cocktail of shimmering guitar harmonics, grand sweeping choruses, drums that avoid funk like the plague and solemn, psychogeographi lyrics from the Ian Curtis school. [Oct 2007, p.94]
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Notice it now, or wait until people start hailing it as a lost classic in a decade's time.
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Even at its prettiest and most accessible, The Western Lands is still a very insular, sometimes uncomfortably intimate album, and listening to it is akin to sharing a tiny but comfortable space in Talbot's closed little cocoon.
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You can hardly help but be swept off by its sheer loveliness, yet even as you go, there’s a sense of foreboding that lends piquancy to the whole experience.
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Q MagazineThe Western Lands is a little like My Bloody Valentine with the sound down low. [Oct 2007, p.109]
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There's a dignity to this lovely, mysterious album that suggests Talbot will never be ready to make the compromises necessary to bring Gravenhurst in from the margins.
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The Western Lands works well as a whole and will surely please longtime fans, but I get the sense that Gravenhurst are holding back.
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UncutGravenhurst prove that kicking arse is neither beneath nor beyond them. [Oct 2007, p.93]
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Under The RadarThis is the key to The Western Lands' appeal: making you feel like you might not be completely alone in your misery. [Fall 2007, p.79]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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DavidR.Oct 30, 2007
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WillCOct 29, 2007
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AlexisM.Oct 26, 2007