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- Summary: The fourth full-length solo release from Southern California singer-songwriter Angelo de Augustine features 27 instruments and was self-recorded, produced, and mixed.
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- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Jul 3, 2023Pastel is exchanged for matt, or maybe gloss, via 27(!) instruments, all played/recorded/produced/mixed by our BOI, not that you could tell he’s been that busy. “Memory Palace” is simplicity itself, Melotron and Mustel celeste sneaking betwixt bashful oaken strumming.
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Jul 3, 2023Toil and Trouble excels in emerging from imagination with a realistic moral of the story; it accepts that peace comes from within – that even if the world’s been set aflame, one can learn to achieve tranquillity amidst the fire. Debatable, of course, but practical all the same.
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MojoJul 3, 2023Augustine's fourth is celestially good, his own fevered vision. [Aug 2023, p.78]
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UncutJul 3, 2023His songs' unruffled, hushed intimacy is an effective tonic. [Aug 2023, p.26]
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Jul 17, 2023Toil and Trouble's themes of trauma, denial, and redemption bear some of the hallmarks of Terry Gilliam's 1991 fantasy-drama The Fisher King, as much like Robin Williams' homeless knight errant, it's both meditative and mad.
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