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MojoMay 20, 2015Overall the feel is sparse and desolate. [Jun 2015, p.89]
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Classic Rock MagazineJan 30, 2015It takes a few listens to hook in its claws, but when it does they're fixed forever. [Feb 2015, p.98]
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UncutJan 29, 2015An album as strange as it is compelling. [Mar 2015, p.77]
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Jan 29, 2015It will be interesting to hear where Miller and his Howlin' Rain project take the rest of this trilogy, but Mansion Songs stands on its own as a portrait of Miller's considerable musical and poetic growth over the last nine years.
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Feb 4, 2015If the next two albums are going to document Miller's rise from rock bottom I'm intrigued as to how he's going to do that when there's a great deal of what seems to be optimism already about. That's exciting and it all comes from how good and honest Mansion Songs is.
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Jan 29, 2015If Howlin Rain likes to draw from rock tradition, they also like to push that tradition to its limit, often creating momentary points of chaos, a sense that the songs could fall apart at any moment.
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MagnetFeb 20, 2015Mansion Songs isn't a great LP, but there's a damn good EP buried in here. [No. 117, p.55]
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Feb 10, 2015Wherever the band is taking their sound as they transcend into the next album, Mansion Songs leaves enough of a fascinating blueprint that fans of the band will wonder where they’re headed next.
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Jan 29, 2015Musically, it’s the grittiest-sounding track on the album, with eddies and distortion clotting the guitar licks and evoking the more destitute vistas of San Francisco. Lyrically, however, the song sounds entirely disingenuous.