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Jan 13, 2014Fans of James Blake's Overgrown and Bon Iver's self-titled second album should find this appealing, but this stands apart from both those records. It's not only smart, it's honest, emotionally and musically.
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Alternative PressJan 17, 2014The Irish singer/songwriter demonstrates both his versatility and magnificence by wrapping his voice around 10 delicate but different songs. [Feb 2014, p.92]
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Jan 14, 2014His latest, instead, is rife with sumptuous arrangements steeped in gorgeous layers of piano and organ, with much subtler licks of guitar sliding in like skin on silk sheets.
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Feb 3, 2014Its delicacy and sentimentality may strike a cheesy note on first listen, but Post-Tropical is a definite grower.
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Jan 15, 2014Post Tropical is an intriguing and rewarding contribution to the alt R&B movement.
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Jan 10, 2014McMorrow has shaken off the folk singer with a guitar tag to give us an album pregnant with intrigue, creativity and diversity.
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Jan 13, 2014Over ten tracks and 40 minutes, Post Tropical never picks up any steam, never comes to life. Mere gorgeousness is, it turns out, not quite enough to sustain a record.
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Mar 13, 2014Post Tropical should gain McMorrow plenty of new fans, and it certainly won’t lose him any.
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MojoJan 23, 2014He's made a dramatic leap between first and second album as profound and unexpected as that of John Grant. [Feb 2014, p.96]
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Jan 10, 2014The musical evolution McMorrow has shown on this record will hopefully expand his audience across genres.
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Mar 27, 2014Post Tropical’s lush horn arrangements, rare but welcome returns to guitar fiddling and overall sense of restraint keep it warm, woozy and with one toe still in the folk realm.
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Jan 14, 2014Haunting and heartening, the record is a powerful follow-up, that feels like just the beginning.
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Jan 21, 2014With its deliberate, languorous pleasures, this is an album to live with, settle with and be crisply rejuvenated by.
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Mar 10, 2014While there was always an arctic edge to McMorrow--for which he has his ghostly falsetto at least partly to thank--Post Tropical only deepens the powerful sense of cold and chill that cloaks his work.
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Jan 30, 2014This album moves and soothes, if it does anything at all.
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Jan 10, 2014Post Tropical succeeds in proving that music is often at its most compelling when it can't be compared or reduced to much of anything at all.
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Jan 10, 2014Both chilly and warm, soulful and soft, Post Tropical is an intricate ice sculpture of an album, and a fantasy come true for anyone who's ever misted up over Maxwell's version of "This Woman's Work."
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Jan 10, 2014McMorrow's new direction is so sweetly sentimental it makes Alt-J sound like NWA.
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Jan 13, 2014As we glide through Post Tropical the tracks steadily grow bigger, with gospel-style harmonies and languid slide guitar lending texture to create a dreamy, if cold, soundscape that may leave some with a sense of frustration, as if we are building towards an ever-shifting point on the horizon.
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Jan 13, 2014Post Tropical has lots of vivid imagery, much drawn from the great outdoors, but throughout the LP’s duration, there’s always a strident theme of strength.
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Jan 13, 2014There's a multitracked theatricality to songs such as Gold and Looking Out, which costs him some of the shiver factor of more understated peers, but delivers moments of magnificence too.
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UncutJan 15, 2014Oddly, this works a treat. [Feb 2014, p.77]
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 0 out of 27
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