by
Mirel Wagner
- Record Label: Sub Pop
- Release Date: Aug 12, 2014
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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, 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, 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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Aug 25, 2014It’s hard to strike a balance in music between the sound of isolation and the connection to an audience. Mirel Wagner finds that tether more often than not on this album, but sometimes it’s so dark that that tie is hard to see.
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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 14, 2014When The Cellar Children See the Light of Day is an excellent record, and one which reinforces the role artists like Mirel Wagner and her like can still have in a modern music setting.
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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 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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UncutAug 12, 2014Wagner is adept at evoking children's half-remembered nightmares. [Sep 2014, p.81]