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- Artist(s): Jay Farrar, Mark Patterson, Andrew Duplantis, Chris Frame
- Summary: The 10th full-length studio release for the Jay Farrar-led band features a guest appearance from Laura Cantrell.
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- Record Label: Transmit Sound
- Genre(s): Americana, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jul 30, 2021For all the angst it musters, Electro Melodier is still a reasonably emphatic effort, one with a drive and determination that never finds cause to falter.
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MojoJul 29, 2021There is plenty going on: doomy folk blues; sparse Woody Guthrie-esque folk; slow, sad Sweet Refrain and The Levee On Down. There's also passionate, pissed-off, rousing country rock. [Sep 2021, p.85]
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Jul 29, 2021A rich, impassioned set of songs. [Sep 2021, p.24]
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Jul 29, 2021Electro Melodier by Son Volt is a lot of what you’ve always loved about the band. They give you melodies that are perfect for dark, cramped clubs. At the same time, Farrar provides thought-provoking lyrics. This album isn’t a scathing indictment of American society. Rather, it poses questions that are well worth considering.
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Jul 30, 2021As on Union, Electro Melodier sounds more like the work of a commentator than an activist, but he has something to say and he says it with intelligence and eloquence, and as his hero Woody Guthrie proved ages ago, that's no small thing.
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Jul 29, 2021Throughout Electro Melodier, the quintet’s momentum arises from arrangements are as crisp and potent as the playing, which in itself is as intelligently wrought as the material. Notwithstanding those virtues, even as Farrar and company mix up the arrangements to include piano and organ as on “These Are The Times,” they don’t offer anything new here.
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