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May 27, 2021Doomin' Sun is indie music at its most engaging. ... A reminder of how exceptional songwriting and musicianship can be even in the face of apocalyptic anxiety as long it's the right mix of artists.
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May 27, 2021All in all, it is as engrossing as it is innocently delightful.
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May 27, 2021What they’ve accomplished with Doomin’ Sun is thus made all the more impressive, offering up a work that lives up to the pair’s best separate efforts and easily marries their different approaches to indie rock. ... Duterte and Kempner’s friendship and palpable creative chemistry underpin some of their strongest work to date.
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May 28, 2021On Bachelor’s album, “Doomin’ Sun,” Kempner and Duterte brought out the best in each other. ... There’s nostalgic comfort in the ways Bachelor looks back to 1990s rock, and Duterte and Kempner project a heartwarming unity.
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May 28, 2021The narrative is unsettling, but the music leaps and soars with a boundless energy that could only be made by two people with the utmost faith in each other. It helps that the album’s production sounds rough and homespun.
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May 27, 2021While varied in style and arrangements, the album maintains a certain heartfelt, longing tone and unvarnished immediacy that engage in tandem with its solid songwriting core.
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May 27, 2021Duterte and Kempner manage to break the mould with Doomin' Sun, proving their chops as singular visionaries as well as synergetic collaborators.
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May 28, 2021It may be overstating things to say Duterte and Kempner belong together, but their musical union sure is satisfying. Written and recorded during a pre-pandemic, two-week-long creative outburst in a rented California house, the songs on Doomin’ Sun bring together the two artists’ best qualities.
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Jun 3, 2021This album embraces you like your favorite seat, preserving your outline intimately in its fabric.
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Jun 7, 2021Kempner grounds Duterte’s dreamy abstraction in gritty reality, creating a dissonance that works best when it mirrors the album’s treatment of the darker edges of relationships. At times, though, the collaboration limits these artists’ strengths.
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Rolling StoneJun 2, 2021Pure indie-rock sunshine. [Jun 2021, p.77]