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Halfway Towards A Healing Image
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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release from the Irish duo of Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland was recorded in Arizona by Gabriel Sullivan and Howe Gelb.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Uncut
    Feb 2, 2018
    80
    The harmonies are exquisite, lending a sense of timelessness to gently understated melodies. Listen harder, and the subtleties of Howe Gelb's production blow in. [Feb 2018, p.29]
  2. Feb 2, 2018
    80
    A thoughtful and subtle gem.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 2, 2018
    80
    With their harmonies having never sounded more like perpetual benchmark The Everly brothers, the cantina guitars and dusty, hazy lyrics conjure a world of adobe bars and lazy roof-top jams as the sun dips behind the cactus. [Mar 2017, p.111]
  4. Mojo
    Feb 2, 2018
    80
    [the Lost Brothers] are most at home in melancholy autumnal folk-lands. [Feb 2018, p.99]
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  1. Jul 9, 2018
    8
    A gentle but gorgeous listen, harmonising voices, exquisite guitar picking with traditional rhythms and tempos giving the album a familiar andA gentle but gorgeous listen, harmonising voices, exquisite guitar picking with traditional rhythms and tempos giving the album a familiar and warm feel to it. While it may sound a straightforward listen initially, there is a lot going on beneath the surface. If you like your folk soft and sweet than you should love this record. Expand