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- Summary: The fourth solo studio release for the Canadian composer features contributions from Brian Eno and the Czech FILMharmonic Orchestra.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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I Am Not Afraid | |
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I am not afraid, he said, of the non-believer within me No delight at the pain of my enemies no tears for any friends I have lost You are not alone,... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 26 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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MagnetMay 21, 2014In Conflict is his masterpiece--if not the best album of 2014, certainly the most profound. [No. 109, p.59]
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May 21, 2014On In Conflict the Canadian composer has managed to translate that energy into his recordings ,making his music as invigorating as it is soothing, as exciting as it is impressive and as complex as it is accessible.
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May 22, 2014It may lack the fictional cryptic storytelling of Pallett's past work but such elements were merely peripheral to the overall picture--this is art set loose on pop with its teeth bared.
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May 21, 2014Pallett’s inventive textures lend emotional weight to some of the deliberately mundane lyrical details, so the album is at once beautifully ethereal and painfully real.
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May 27, 2014In Conflict is queer outsider art at its most fraught and compelling.
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Dec 18, 2014In Conflict hits a perfect art/pop balance.
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May 21, 2014It’s an undeniably strong album, in which existing fans will find much to love. It just isn’t quite ‘Heartland’.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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