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82

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  • Summary: The latest full-length release for London-based singer-songwriter A.A. Williams was co-produced by her husband Thomas Williams and mixed by Adrian Hall.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Oct 6, 2022
    100
    Here, her already fulfilled promise is given the opportunity to breathe and find even deeper depths of wonder and intriguing brilliance. Hear it and weep.
  2. Oct 6, 2022
    86
    Yet, for all its wonderfully dense qualities, A.A. Williams’ voice remains the star of her show. It’s as consistently powerful as it is calming: it fits tranquil acoustic soundscapes as well as devastating post-metal disintegrations.
  3. 80
    Elegantly blurring the lines between post-rock, metal and post-classical once again, As The Moon Rests is a dramatic, urgent, poetic return to form for A.A. Williams.
  4. Mojo
    Oct 6, 2022
    80
    As The Moon Rests is thrillingly bleak, but not so bleak there isn't a crack of light visible at all times. [Nov 2022, p.93]
  5. Oct 10, 2022
    70
    If Forever Blue was a great debut, As the Moon Rests is a very good follow-up, and leaves no doubt that A.A. Williams is a remarkable talent who is still honoring her singular vision.
  6. Uncut
    Oct 19, 2022
    70
    She sings achingly slow, self-loathing, minor-key ballads which would function well with just a clawhammer acoustic guitar accompaniment. But she transforms the rest of them into epic pieces of sludge metal. [Dec 2022, p.36]
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Oct 7, 2022
    10
    Just one of the most incredible new artists around, though please metacritic put the right cover image on, this is "Forever Blue" not "As TheJust one of the most incredible new artists around, though please metacritic put the right cover image on, this is "Forever Blue" not "As The Moon Rests" Expand