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- Summary: The second full-length release for the New York-based singer-songwriter was recorded in Iceland with Alex Somers.
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- Record Label: Dead Oceans Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 21 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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Aug 27, 2013In taking her sorrow, turning it on its head and finding inspiration in another magical place, she has produced something powerfully, uniquely transcendent: something vast and expansive, intimate and affecting all at once.
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Aug 8, 2013While it may be a tremendously personal album for Barwick, you can get lost in Nepenthe for not only its sheer beauty, but for its ability to evoke visual cues and tell stories with its music.
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Aug 19, 2013This is a profound and giving music.
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MojoAug 13, 2013Nepenthe finds Julianna Barwick's already established wash of angel tones and free-floating radiance newly influenced by the breathtaking, often alien wonders of her host country. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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Aug 20, 2013The album is gorgeous, almost an abstraction of what musical loveliness could be.
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Aug 26, 2013Depending on your tastes, Nepenthe either marks Barwick's progression to a higher, more emotionally powerful and resonant place, or she's managed the musical equivalent of Instagramming her album.
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The WireAug 15, 2013Nepenthe pushes the formula to [a] breaking point, where emotional manipulation crosses over into cloying, calculated and claustrophobic. [Aug 2013, p.53]
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Aug 22, 2013This album follows the beauty of The Magic Place but in a more celestial sound. As always the music is amazing but in sometimes is more of the same.
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Aug 29, 2013
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