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Feb 11, 2014This album comes so highly recommended because it’s strung out, not drawn out; it’s melodic not chronic and ultimately it’s both pleasant enough to listen to a few times and suggestively dour enough to suck you from there.
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Feb 28, 2014It's a piece of surrealism and absolutely beautiful to listen to.
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Feb 27, 2014Its greatest strengths are more memorable: the songwriting is strong, even if the album is a little top heavy, and it’s a lot of fun to watch Aaron Funk go way out on a limb without a safety net in sight.
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Feb 27, 2014The result is a brilliant and warped collection of sinister lullabies and dreamlike ballads in which Funk’s gravelly timbre jars against Pollock’s dreamy vocals in a beautifully nightmare-infused collision.
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Feb 11, 2014Poemss plays like a journey, musically, but it's a journey of discovery and boundaries as the two differing producers find their common ground, a process you can hear throughout the album.
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Feb 11, 2014Poemss is very much a new venture for its makers that has precious little, if any, resemblance to their previous work. Instead, it’s something of a musical reinvention, and the possible beginning of a very fruitful partnership.
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UncutMar 7, 2014Exposed and vulnerable, Funk has seldom sounded so sensible. [Apr 2014, p.78]
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Feb 11, 2014The LP isn’t internally coherent, isn’t particularly successful on its own terms, which is probably more of a sin than any imputed association with this or that philosophy could ever be.