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  • Artist(s): David Bryant, Kevin Doria
  • Summary: The full-length release from the experimental duo of David Bryant and Kevin Doria includes field recordings.
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  • Record Label: Constellation
  • Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Alternative/Indie Rock, Field Recordings, Sound Sculpture
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. May 14, 2014
    80
    While Shortwave Nights might not be for everyone, Hiss Tracts have made an album of experimental music that feels like it was made to engage rather than alienate, casting aside inscrutability to create something surprisingly fragile and soulful.
  2. May 14, 2014
    80
    This is an album that requires immersion; many of the themes and motifs are barely there and need the blanks to be filled in. It is a sonic adventure, scary, exciting and otherworldly.
  3. May 14, 2014
    70
    Shortwave Nights is a real enigma, and oddly addictive for it.
  4. 70
    The surrounding album excels when it approaches that sort of cinematics, and falters when it all but requires whatever accompaniment you might bring to it--say a good book perhaps.
  5. Q Magazine
    Jun 17, 2014
    60
    At times, it's almost peaceful. [Jul 2014, p.109]
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