- Record Label: Drag City
- Release Date: Sep 23, 2014
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Sep 30, 2014If the album does anything right (and it does a lot right), it is capturing the contradicting emotions of a life and trying to reconcile them, so that the listener doesn’t have to do the same.
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MagnetNov 12, 2014It's yet another excellent Oldham album. [No. 115, p.54]
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Nov 12, 2014Singer’s Grave works as a great record in its own right and--perhaps surprisingly, considering its gestation--could be the best starting point for those yet to explore his work.
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MojoNov 5, 2014Hard to know if he's upbeat or down--at times it might be a break-up album--but enjoyable either way. [Nov 2014, p.92]
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Oct 1, 2014This frequent dichotomy between being beleaguered with life and brief flares of hope and appreciation of beauty keeps the album from being overbearing. It also gives some compelling insight into the narrators’ psychologies and is emblematic of how truly maladjusted they are.
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Sep 30, 2014It’s much easier to think of Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues as Oldham highlighting the many facets of his songs, breathing new life into them and showing his versatility, rather than purely recycling them.
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UncutDec 23, 2014Mark Nevers, on production, ensures Singer's grave is the lushest Oldham LP since Beware, and "So Far And Here We Are" is a stinging all-new effort. Motives, though, remain even less clear than usual. [Nov 2014, p.71]
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Sep 30, 2014Oldham’s intentions behind re-recording these relatively recent songs are puzzling, but the curious nature of the album is just another chapter of the mysterious, and in this case highly enjoyable saga of Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
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Sep 30, 2014On Singer’s Grave, Oldham tweaks the lyrics and song titles here and there to fit these new, peppier arrangements, but he doesn’t appear to be making any grand artistic statement in these re-dos other than making it clear, again, that he can reinvent himself and his songs in any way he so chooses.