User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The producer of Spoon's Gimme Fiction, explore 9/11 and politics again.
- Record Label: Barsuk
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 13 out of 14
-
Mixed: 1 out of 14
-
Negative: 0 out of 14
-
Both on a song-for-song basis and as singular cohesive work, Emerald City demonstrates Vanderslice's masterful control of craft at every structural level and his unrivaled ability to make the political personal.
-
John Vanderslice's sixth full-length, Emerald City, doesn't disappoint.
-
The entirety of Emerald City seeks to elevate to the personal and the timeless, and top to bottom it is a success.
-
SpinEmerald City may be his most unsettling work yet. [Aug 2007, p. 110]
-
The album, like most of Vanderslice’s albums, meanders along like a pleasant afternoon: it is all fair weather and blithe breezes, fairly consistent in both tone and tempo.
-
Emerald City is vividly imagined yet subtle in tone, with conflicted character sketches unfolding around somber synth melodies, creaky electronic effects, and fuzzy acoustic guitar strums.
-
Q MagazineHis sixth album has a political slant, but the message is subtler than his controversial 2000 ditty, 'Bill Gates Must Die.'
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 8 out of 9
-
Mixed: 0 out of 9
-
Negative: 1 out of 9
-
AllanC.Sep 21, 2007Great sound and loved it from top to bottom.
-
-
KevinC.Sep 24, 2007
-
-
tayzAug 16, 2007
-
-
MarkGSep 18, 2007Great record.
-
-
christianp.Aug 5, 2007
-
-
b'lisSep 1, 2007
-
-
colind.Aug 2, 2007
-