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I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk Image
Metascore
75

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5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: Released under the expanded name, Tim Presley’s White Fence, the seventh full-length solo release for the California rock artist was recorded in San Francisco by Jeremy Harris.
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
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  1. Nov 8, 2019
    89
    An eerie, whimsical sheen coats jaunty guitars, arty baroque keys, and choral intonations, with delicate lyrics skewing surprisingly funny at times as they warp the burdens of addiction and the lovelorn.
  2. Jan 28, 2019
    80
    Easily his most accessible material, there's still a lot of uncomfortable emotional and sonic wreckage to sift through. Peeling back the layers of grime and giving listeners a chance to sift through it for themselves makes I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk feel like a debut from this already storied songwriter.
  3. Jan 29, 2019
    80
    An album which altogether represents a welcome change of direction.
  4. Jan 23, 2019
    70
    It sounds like Presley walked into a room, set up a few microphones, pressed record, and made Feed Larry's Hawk happen however he pleased. Maybe he played the tape back later, made the appropriate edits and mixes; that was it. The challenge is a success.
  5. Jan 28, 2019
    70
    Presley is an oddball psychedelic pop artist of considerable appeal. He’s also an experimenter in digital minimalism. Larry’s Hawk eats all kinds of stuff, apparently, and you just have to keep feeding him.
  6. Uncut
    Jan 23, 2019
    70
    Psychedelic beguilement a la Syd Barrett and Wyatt-ish pastoralism bent into eccentric shapes figure, but variety is key. [Feb 2019, p.30]
  7. Mojo
    Jan 23, 2019
    60
    Ducking and diving between ivories and six-string, his reedy-voice makes for a Syd Barrett attempting Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? record, full of compulsive tunes, but ever off-centre. [Feb 2019, p.91]

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