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- Summary: The first release on the Third Man label from the instrumental duo of Patrick McDermott and Barry Walker features contributions from Mary Lattimore and William Tyler.
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- Record Label: Third Man Records
- Genre(s): Folk
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The WireDec 3, 2020Barry Walker’s softly rising and falling pedal steel melodies calcify the skeleton of “Memory Of Lunch”, while Patrick McDermott’s distorted guitar lines provide the flesh, shaping a harsher drone as a symbolic border between reality and dream. And while Roped In never renounces its cheerful perspective, the approaching darkness of his guitar overtones dispels childlike innocence. [Dec 2020, p.53]
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UncutDec 3, 2020A genuinely beautiful, expansive record. [Dec 2020, p.36]
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MojoDec 3, 2020Lovely instrumental set. [Dec 2020, p.89]
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Dec 3, 2020The soft edges of Roped In make it both a sublime record in its own right as well as a pleasant, inviting portal into a wider world of simpatico artists. The album feels like the aural equivalent of gazing into a massive and well-appointed aquarium, a vessel for color and movement that quietly soothes as it shuttles along.