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- Summary: The third album for the Brooklyn-based duo who met at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Positive: 8 out of 8
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After two great albums, Choral sees the duo consolidating all the gains made into its first real classic, an album that ought to delight hardened-ambient fanatics and neophytes alike.
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What we’re left with, speakers humming with aftermath, is the possibility of a real and significant realization: that between Hecker and Mountains, 2009 suggests a sea change--and I can’t think of a more appropriately grand term--in which ambient music may just enter a post-Eno peak.
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Q MagazineThe Mountain boys at the--ahem--peak of their powers. [Apr 2009, p.107]
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Under The RadarChoral is an impressionistic, mellifluous record that persistently beguiles. [Spring 2009, p.77]
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UncutMountains' skillful manipulation of texture and space creates a sound that stealthily envelopes you like an Appalachian fog. [mar 2009, p.92]
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That said, try as you might, you can listen a hundred times and not catch all the utterly magical, deeply moving, and beautifully arresting aural majesty to be found on Choral.
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Choral sometimes feels staid and a little postcard-y: a pretty gesture that fails to eclipse the experience of actually going somewhere.
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RobertPsMar 10, 2009It's one of the best albums I've ever heard. It just puts you in an earthy state of mind. Why go outside?
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