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Feb 4, 2015Sea Island does not shatter the serene identity that Morgan has been sculpting like a bonsai tree from at least as far back as First Narrows, a creative breakthrough of sorts, up to his last album for Kranky, Sketches From New Brighton in 2012. It tugs and tinkers, but does not tear.
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Nov 25, 2014It’s beautiful in its own manner, and thankfully avoids the one-sound pitfall into which ambient music may fall.
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Nov 25, 2014Music this haunting is more universal than local.
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Nov 18, 2014The passive listener will find 11 slices of instant utter serenity on Sea Island, while a deeper listen reveals a starkly depicted, and often dramatic ocean voyage, haunted by memories from back on dry land.
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Nov 18, 2014A hypnosis kicks in and we discover that a massive and dense album has run its hour-plus course in what felt like... two minutes? Four days?
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Nov 18, 2014Sea Island feels like an evolution of the sounds and ideas he explored on his previous full-length, 2012's excellent Sketches from New Brighton, and the short-form releases that followed it, the piano-driven Intervalo and his split EP with the British ambient group Fieldhead.
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Nov 18, 2014It's headphone music for sure, optimally experienced on a slow train with a glass roof so the record's atmospheric elements can aptly complement the passing stars.
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UncutDec 4, 2014Sea Island feels comfortable, perhaps a little overly so, though there are plenty of lovely moments. [Jan 2015, p.74]
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