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An existentialist’s song cycle, Vacilando's grim, lonely songs reinforce each other with an impeccable internal logic, fashioning its own little world-weary universe, wherein less is more, simple guitar strums signal seismic shifts in mood, shadows bump into one another.
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Q MagazineHis first proper UK release is a treat, at times conjuring the beautiful, stark bleakness of Nick Drake, elsewhere not afraid to crank things up. [Feb 2009, p.119]
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Neil Young set the template, but Tillman puts his stamp on every note, wringing bare-bones poetry from evocative couplets.
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The dusty, reverent feel of even the album's wildest rockers gives the sense that he's just a lone wanderer battling solitude with sound.
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There is much to admire in Tillman's fifth album.
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Much like Fleet Foxes, the music contained within isn't particularly ground breaking, but what is done is done well.