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MojoNov 19, 2014Such is its weight and accomplishment that it could easily be the work of Gavin Bryars or Arvo Part. [Dec 2014, p.92]
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Nov 13, 2014Ypres is an eloquent meditation on such complacency, on valour and its misuse, as well as a memorial to the battles, and war, that was meant to end them all.
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Nov 13, 2014This is a modern classical work that, while haunting and beautiful, bears the enduring weight of witness to the madness of a war that was to end all wars yet, as catastrophic and senseless as this shared massacre was, the long shadow of its historical implications remain.
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Nov 18, 2014One key difference, though, is in Tindersticks’ fondness for taking small moments and blowing them up big. Here, they turn that method inside out, starting with a huge, globe changing event and working something humble around it, making it feel like they’re respectfully cowering in its shadow.
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Q MagazineNov 13, 2014As a functional piece of music, it's fitness-for-purpose isn't in question,. But as a stand-alone album, the satisfaction it can offer, perhaps, is. [Dec 2014, p.119]
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Nov 13, 2014If the album means more in that context than it does outside it, the same could be said of the geographical significance of the historical tragedy it's memorializing.