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Mirel Wagner
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Release Date: Aug 12, 2014
- Summary: The second release for the Finnish singer-songwriter was produced by Vladislav Delay.
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- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Top Track
| Oak Tree | |
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| Lady left me here underneath this old oak tree She made me a bed of roots and leaves With a trembling voice she sung me to sleep Said dream, dream... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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Aug 12, 2014Brace yourself. This album is more clinging than quicksand, it is uncompromising, transcendent voodoo. [Sep 2014, p.92]
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Aug 12, 2014Simply put, When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day is one of the best albums of the year.
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Aug 12, 2014When the Cellar Children See the Light of Day is in many ways an astounding album; unflinching in its tales of abuse, murder and death it marks Mirel Wagner out not just as a musician of immense talent, but also as a story teller and poet who’s able to weave gripping tales from bleak reality.
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Aug 25, 2014The likes of Mark Lanegan and Nick Cave have a new rival in the practising of dark musical arts.
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Aug 12, 2014Wagner’s songs remain skeletal--still just bone and flaking flesh--but the sound is more polished, crisper and starker and at times even slick.
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MagnetAug 12, 2014Throughout, minimally invasive production from Vladislav Delay creates a fuller sense of emptiness, resulting in one big, glorious downer. [No. 112, p.61]
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Aug 12, 2014This is Wagner's second album, and that was the backstory of her 2012 self-titled debut. This follow-up is no less enigmatic.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Aug 15, 2014
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