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Feb 27, 2013Mount Moriah has certainly found more confidence in their identity, and Miracle Temple will be what defines them moving forward.
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Mar 26, 2013MM flash their heavy roots on ‘Miracle Temple Holiness’. They come close to pop brilliance, however, when they go full hillbilly hustle on 'White Sands.'
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Mar 18, 2013Proper, stop-you-in-your-tracks talent with the occasional song to match.
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Mar 1, 2013Mount Moriah remains committed to a sparse, skeletal vein of Americana that values precision over ambition. That’s not to imply the album isn’t a rich and varied listening experience, but its ambiguities and complexities are shaded in charcoal, not paint.
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Mar 1, 2013It’s a brilliant new sound from a new band that’s just getting started.
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Feb 26, 2013Miracle Temple is gorgeous. Its songs contain poignancy, pathos, pain, and desire inside gritty yet artfully played Southern gothic rock & roll.
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Feb 26, 2013There are moments enough to both hoist your beer and shed a lonesome teardrop throughout Miracle Temple, an album that’s overflowing with both emotion and beauty.
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Feb 26, 2013The rest of the band obviously knows that McEntire is the showpiece--songs like "Those Girls" show that they do, setting up her big moments with subtlety and understatement--reminding us that the real power is in restraint.
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2013It's a pleasure that continues revealing itself upon subsequent listens. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.90]
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Feb 28, 2013They don’t sensationalize anything sonically or lyrically; one might even argue that Miracle Temple is too restrained.
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Feb 27, 2013For an album whose most apparent traits are simplicity and broadness, Miracle Temple's best moments are pretty idiosyncratic.
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Feb 26, 2013With the ambitious Miracle Temple , Mount Moriah puts its own powerful stamp on a music that's faithkeeping in more than one sense.
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Feb 27, 2013There’s an impressive amount of sound and instrumentation for a trio. The consequence is that McEntire doesn’t stand out quite as well as last time, and can easily get lost in the tight, economical work from her bandmates.
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Feb 26, 2013McEntire’s honeyed vocal timbre helps shake the album out of sporadic tempo doldrums when Miracle Temple drags and lacks a palpable spark.
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MagnetMar 15, 2013What stands out most on the Americana-saturated Miracle Temple is the way the band shuffles and tweaks country music and gospel/folk elements, yet still sounds very traditional, for better or worse. [No. 96, p.53]