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May 15, 2014This could be the biggest revelation of the lot. It simply does not get any better than Love.
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May 15, 2014It’s a masterclass in formal brilliance meeting dogged idiosyncrasy on equal footing.
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The WireJul 17, 2014Despite the dubious company he keeps, McMahon's ambient folk pop remains beguiling. [May 2014, p.70]
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Jun 20, 2014Though they are very different albums, one way that Love carries on where Through Donkey Jaw left off is that it is deeply hypnotic.
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May 13, 2014This is easily some of McMahon's prettiest and most accessible music, and it's also some of his finest. In its own simple, graceful way, Love adds more depth to the rest of Amen Dunes' work.
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May 13, 2014Love is a lush, romantic, folk-driven collection that moves away from his earlier, more psychedelic work.
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May 13, 2014As long as McMahon is singing, Amen Dunes will never sound quite like anyone else--and on Love, he sings better and more ambitiously than ever.
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May 15, 2014McMahon’s a constantly improving songwriter, and with Love, he’s created his most fully realized and purposeful batch of songs yet.
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May 14, 2014The resulting album has been arranged with such care and attention to detail that each track--from the quivering sighs of "Splits Are Parted" to the frayed guitar strums of recent cut "I Can't Dig It"--is capable of conveying the most complex of human emotions in but one refrain. An entire album's worth is almost too much to handle.
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May 13, 2014McMahon’s takes the plainspoken and renders it into poetry on his new album, and where previous records coiled in on themselves in interesting ways, this one reaches out to a newfound and bright future.
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May 13, 2014There is no question that this is a work of devotion, even a work of love, but as a document of raw emotion, it is lacking, it feels overly considered.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Oct 21, 2018