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These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound Image
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  • Summary: This is the first full-length release on the Phantom Limb label for the British experimental artist.
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 3, 2020
    80
    Sonic hexes that feel simultaneously cursed and curative. [Oct 2020, p.91]
  2. Dec 3, 2020
    80
    A taut, at times challenging, but engrossing collection of sounds.
  3. The Wire
    Dec 3, 2020
    70
    I miss the grit and grain of Skelton’s unique string sounds, but he still gets a brightness in his melancholy, often via a bristling major chord. [Oct 2020, p.61 ]
  4. Uncut
    Dec 3, 2020
    70
    Skelton's music has an ascetic quality that gives these tracks the sense of little rituals, pagan prayers brought blinking into the present. [Jan 2021, p.32]
  5. Dec 3, 2020
    70
    The album reaches something of a climax with On Each Of The Six Fives Of The Moon, which features thick, metallic tones encircling over bleak and unforgiving terrain. Its Deathprod-like heaviness is sustaining and compelling in equal measure and, like much of the album, there’s little option but to submit to its force and embrace the imposing mass face-on.