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May 11, 201281It is, itself, a joyful record, prickly and playful and sometimes downright bizarre, but never less than welcoming.
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Apr 5, 201281The album is a statement of self-sufficiency born of creative tensions, between man and woman, people and land, performance and recording. Within these dualities, Zammuto has created something whole.
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May 24, 201280While nothing quite meets the precedent set by the first track, the album is a bracing adventure in texture.
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May 4, 201280A damn fine album.
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Apr 13, 201280It's hard to recall an album so invitingly unfamiliar, so beguilingly hard to parse, so full of "wait, what was that?" moments... since the first Books album. [No.86, p.61]
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Apr 11, 201280Zammuto excels at the opposite: deconstructing life into easily digestible songs that make you feel something.
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Apr 5, 201280The sharply differentiated genre experiments become less well-defined in the home stretch, but the sound design stays immersive, with pleasant little things to listen to festooned in every niche.
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Apr 5, 201275It's not that this material is any less challenging than anything that The Books did, it's just infinitely more memorable on a first listen.
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Jul 10, 201270Go figure, the most enjoyable parts of the album are hard to separate from the most annoying.
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Apr 30, 201270There's no pretentions, no concepts, just an exploration of music and Zammuto is starting to write the book of the future once again.
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Apr 12, 201270While the album has its flaws in terms of consistency and clarity of concept, the most captivating songs speak to the incredible potential of the project, and are among the more engaging that I've heard in quite some time.
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Apr 5, 201270This record feels like a race to an unknowable destination.
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Jul 9, 201260Zammuto is a promising step beyond The Books' found-sound charm toward a new organic life. [Jun 2012, p.157]
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Apr 5, 201260There's a roving chaos to the disc, not completely divorced from the springy shifts of his other band, but definitely a different animal.