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The Great White Sea Eagle Image
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  • Artist(s): Nina Persson
  • Summary: The Cardigans' Nina Persson joins the latest full-length release for Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
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  1. Jan 13, 2023
    90
    Yorkston has couched his thoughtful, insightful songs in many musical forms, all of them quite successful. His teamwork with the Second Hand Orchestra, and especially with Persson, results in some of the most beautiful and moving music he's made, which is high praise indeed.
  2. Jan 12, 2023
    80
    By the time we reach final track A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing it’s noticeable how familiar the songs already seem to feel, a special quality that confirms the album to be significantly greater than the sum of its individual parts.
  3. Jan 12, 2023
    80
    It’s these 12 weary waltzes and bright ballads, written gazing upon the sea from the window of his Cellardyke studio, that will find their way into your heart forever.
  4. Jan 12, 2023
    80
    A work of real refinement, ‘The Great White Sea Eagle’ is peppered with jewels.
  5. Uncut
    Jan 12, 2023
    80
    Songs crisp as winter sunlight. [Feb 2023, p.36]
  6. Jan 20, 2023
    80
    It’s a beautiful, hand made collection of natural and unforced songs to be treasured.
  7. Mojo
    Jan 12, 2023
    80
    The result is brooding, often humorous musing on life, joy, occasionally death. ... But it's tender love song Mary, with its meandering sax, that stops you. [Feb 2023, p.92]
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