- Record Label: The Moon Recording Company
- Release Date: Jan 31, 2012
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Jun 6, 2012This is alt-country (or folk or whatever) at its finest, music that elides from well-worn and comfortable generic trope to bursts of originality, music that revels in the holy trifecta of lyricism, instrumentation and production.
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Jun 6, 2012If you dig big choruses, the sound of a heart breaking and just the right amount of sweat on your brow, then Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It is for you.
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Jun 6, 2012Working against the big intentions are the ramshackle playing; the rough production and mixes, and, inevitably, Arcuragi's rusty, overwrought tenor upfront.
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Jun 6, 2012After some time, you can't really connect with the material, and thus it flies by like a wash of intriguing but ultimately unimportant noise.