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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Aug 23, 2019
- Summary: The eighth full-length solo studio release for the British experimental singer-songwriter features influences from drone music, science fiction and cosmic horror comics.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Folk
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Sep 11, 2019An album that is constantly surprising, occasionally unsettling, frequently beautiful and always mysterious.
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MojoAug 22, 2019Once again Tucker demonstrates his knack of creating simple, incantatory, almost folky vocal lines, which pivot around a few telling chord changes and lodge in the memory long after the music stops. [Sep 2019, p.91]
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Aug 26, 2019Tucker brings on an overload of tone, overtone and sonic sensation that swirls and eddies like a rough tide, at times nearly picking you up off your feet and tossing you over.
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Aug 22, 2019Tucker's previous few albums contained some of his most stripped-down, direct material, but here he goes for a bigger, grander sound, and the results are no less powerful.
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UncutAug 22, 2019Guild takes a few listens to really seep in, but there are some truly hallucinatory moments here. [Oct 2019, p.39]
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The WireAug 22, 2019There's a mismatch between sound and vision here that forestalls true wonder or joy. ... A little more concision and concentration throughout could have made Guild of the Asbestos Weaver more effective. [Sep 2019, p.62]
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Sep 3, 2019This album is an acquired taste that may struggle to win a larger audience. If you’re a Grumbling Fur fan, though, you might just like this effort more than any of his other solo collections.