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83

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Dec 7, 2023
    80
    The bucolic folk-fingering on display gives the sense that he was gazing out upon the same grand vistas as Pan American.
  2. The Wire
    Dec 6, 2023
    80
    Where Vernon’s album [For Emma, Forever Ago] registers like a melancholic exorcism of listless youth and failed relationships, Bachman does not engage in that kind of soul searching, though he elicits a similarly potent emotional response. [Jan/Feb 2024, p.77]
  3. Mojo
    Nov 29, 2023
    80
    Progressive conceptual art, underpinned with profound personal resonances. [Jan 2024, p.87[
  4. Uncut
    Nov 29, 2023
    80
    When The Roses Come Again feels like something impossibly ancient, sent back to us from some distant future. [Dec 2023, p.32]
  5. Nov 29, 2023
    80
    This is, in other words, still serious music, yet it is not necessarily somber. Probably not coincidentally, When the Roses Come Again provides the perfect soundtrack for a drive through a land of woods, farms, and small towns dotted with Dollar General stores and cell towers.
  6. Nov 29, 2023
    79
    There are no real songs to speak of—just scenes, which flow together as seamlessly as fields glimpsed from the window of a moving train. The album is clearly meant to be experienced as a single piece of music, and the pacing is immaculate.

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