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Aug 8, 2011Everything here is gorgeously sung and this woozy, gently uplifting collection of songs is pretty close to perfect.
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UncutAug 19, 2011His debut illustrates a more prosaic act of creation, in which fastidious study is transformed into compelling new music. [Aug 2011, p.92]
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Aug 15, 2011Wilson specialises in vintage gear, and Gentle Spirit sounds like the product of such equipment--warm, wistful and golden-hued, coated in creamed harmonies--but also, crucially, alive.
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MojoAug 8, 2011In less accomplished hands it could have spiraled into pastiche. Instead, by being so dedicated to the past, Wilson has shaped a delicious future. [Aug 2011]
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Aug 8, 2011Beautiful and bewitching.
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Aug 8, 2011Thankfully, the further Wilson gets from his heroes, the better he gets.
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Aug 8, 2011Gentle Spirit is impressively inert.
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Aug 8, 2011As California dreamin' goes, this is almost as good as heading for the hills, reaching for a hand-tooled native American bong and calling yourself Moon Unit.
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Oct 28, 2011Gentle Spirit is a set of gorgeously detailed folk-rock ambles, most over six minutes long.
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