- Record Label: Black Cricket Recording
- Release Date: Jul 17, 2015
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Aug 5, 2015The downside is that both members of Team Beamwell are retreading well-worn paths that lead to nostalgic, rather than newfound, destinations.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015Largely they hit the sweet spot by turning these songs into tunes that could be straight off their own LPs. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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Jul 17, 2015The album ends up feeling like a mixtape put together by a pair of old friends.
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Jul 16, 2015An album of covers which, however enjoyable, doesn’t always take songs by the likes of John and JJ Cale, Ronnie Laine, Bon Iver and Bonnie Raitt to places they haven’t been before.
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Jul 14, 2015For diehard Iron and Wine or Band of Horses fans, Sing Into My Mouth will make a pleasant supplemental entry into their collections, but for everyone else, it seems to be a record much more fulfilling for its creators than for listeners.
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Jul 17, 2015The key problem with Sing Into My Mouth, though, is that this willingness to go against the grain of the cosy sonic identity that the pair have carved out for themselves is all too rare, and inevitably, more often than not the covers sound uninspiring in that form at best and plain wrong at worst.
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Jul 15, 2015Instead of opening up new possibilities in the originals, Beam and Bridwell unwittingly demonstrate how limited certain songs can be and therefore how unsatisfying certain covers can sound.
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Jul 23, 2015As a primer, it's pretty effective and the performances are occasionally absorbing, but it's hard to imagine anyone other than the most ardent completist getting excited about it.
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Aug 6, 2015Sparse renditions here add zero insight.
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MojoJul 14, 2015Its utilitarian arrangements only highlight how difficult it is to create a worthy cover. [Aug 2015, p.94]