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Dec 22, 2015It all makes for a breezy yet powerful expression of independence from an artist who is always true to herself.
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The WireMay 15, 2015With its warm timbres and cushioning delays, sonically Captain Of None is Colleen's most approachable record yet. [Apr 2015, p.52]
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Apr 27, 2015Captain Of None places Schott's voice front-and-centre and folds in her long-burning love for dub and reggae rhythms, making for her most approachable and otherworldly record yet.
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MojoApr 22, 2015The whole thing carves out and inhabits a persuasively exotic world of echo that invites total immersion. [May 2015, p.97]
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Apr 15, 2015The spacious long-form approach on these eight tracks really showcase Schott’s insistent, tactile, and conversation-with-yourself lonesome performance style. It’s great loner music, for those who own this about themselves but are ever casting a tentative eye toward the throng.
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Apr 8, 2015It may not be as immediately sonically challenging as her earlier, more austere work, but it is no less valiant and genre-defying. In fact, it probably pushes the envelope quite a bit further.
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Apr 8, 2015For a musician who has been leaning on the same style of ambient electronic for years, Colleen bravely reaches for something outside her ethereal comfort zone on Captain of None.
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Apr 8, 2015There are times on Captain of None where the album’s architecture is so compelling it's easy to miss the resonance of the songs themselves.
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UncutApr 29, 2015Much of that atmosphere [from previous albums] remains on Captain Of None, thanks to whispered vocals and a focus on the courtly pluck of a viola da gamba. [Jun 2015, p.73]
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MagnetApr 15, 2015Schott's new material retains some of the music-box delicacy of yore, and her breathy singing is as slender as a reed. [No. 119, p.53]
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Apr 8, 2015Whilst it might miss its prequel’s sublime rootedness, the album’s alluring and questing life-force confirms that Cécile Schott is a thoughtful artisan to keep closely watching over a long-haul creative journey.
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Apr 8, 2015More than any sort of technical achievement or genre alteration, Captain of None powerfully blends the mythic, organic, and internal.