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- Summary: The six-track solo EP from Bon Iver's Sean Carey features reimaginings of four songs from his first two albums as well as a cover of Radiohead's "Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was," and a new song.
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- Record Label: Jagjaguwar
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
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Mar 5, 2015The tracks glisten and shine, piano lines dance about their composer's melancholic quavering, and each of the six perfectly crafted moments has you reaching for another packet of Kleenex.
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Feb 18, 2015Thematic and cohesive, Supermoon eschews the scattered folk of his LPs for an attentive, intimate perspective on some old tracks that should tide fans of Carey over until his next proper record.
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Feb 18, 2015The results are never short of lovely, but the chosen limitations do sometimes lead to less lasting impressions than those left by their more fleshed-out counterparts.
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Feb 20, 2015Carey's strengths are in building enchanting musical landscapes inspired by the beauty of the natural world, but presented here as a more straightforward piano-and-strings songman, his shortcomings are revealed.
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Feb 18, 2015Sean Carey could really do with pushing himself further than he does at any point on this laurel-resting stopgap release.
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Feb 18, 2015The most successful [alternative versions] are the ones that drastically reinvent their material, recasting, for instance, rock songs as synth-pop songs, synth-pop songs as rock songs, or busy twee-punk as slightly less busy acoustic twee-punk. But Supermoon never takes those kinds of leaps.
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