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Castanets
- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
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There’s a certain kind of magic going on here and it needs to be accounted for.
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UncutThis fifth album is an abstract fuzz of Floydian oddness and gothic not-quite-country. [Nov 2009, p.102]
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Texas Rose, The Thaw and The Beasts is the closest Raposa has come to a straight country record. But he doesn't come that close, as all these players steer him further out on tangents rather than towards the middle. And the record is all the better for it.
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Texas Rose is moody and layered, and Raposa is adept at creating a world that is deep, enveloping, and enticing.
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Deeply individualistic, dark and woebegotten, one can’t help but root for his continued presence seemingly regardless of his efforts.
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Plaintive, spare, and narrative in approach, these songs--which seem to bookend the album--are among Raposa’s most affecting.
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Overall, Texas Rose, the Thaw, and the Beasts is a good mood record, a midnight opus that sounds great while it's playing but doesn't much travel with the listener beyond its runtime.
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Texas Rose is markedly similar in this regard and consequently another chapter in Raposa’s development as an artist that is beginning to seem more a journey that is less for us, and more for him.
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Under The RadarIf "City Of Refuge" unfolded like a Calexico album produced by Jim O'Rourke, Texas Rose, with its bold re-imaging of the old-time country idiom, has more in common with "Van Lear Rose."
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Q MagazineOrthodoxy is dispensed with here, with varible results. [Nov 2009, p.103]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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BenFeb 1, 2010