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Oct 30, 2014It's a stellar record, one that captivates both the heart and the imagination with an almost imperceptible grip, clutching the listener's attention with its painstakingly beautiful construction and a sadness that is all-consuming but somehow warm and comforting.
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Nov 3, 2014Not quite folk songs or noise experiments or vocal soundscapes or really anything you can pin down by category, they are nonetheless very beautiful and as quietly striking as any music you’ll hear this year.
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UncutOct 30, 2014Mering's atmospheric second album is a masterclass in spooked melancholia, clothing her cool Nico-esque vibrato in spine-shivering folk-noir arrangements. [Nov 2014, p.84]
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Oct 30, 2014If you think you’ve heard songs more successful at melodrama and heavy mood than “Bad Magic” or more successful at the naked, perennial mode of “pure beauty” than “Requiem For Forgiveness,” I want you to forget them, because you are kidding yourself.
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Oct 30, 2014These finely wrought songs introduce a fascinating and confidently subversive artist and offers a glimpse of the road she’s traveling.
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Oct 30, 2014The Innocents is earthy melodrama for catacombs that deserves to be heard above ground. Weyes Blood’s gothic, magical realm has a dozen more doors to be opened on her sophomore LP. It’s just a matter of when the record ends up in your hands.
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Oct 30, 2014There’s a heartfelt, gentle sadness inside The Innocents that just makes you want to throw your arms around it.
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Positive: 12 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Apr 30, 2021It was a really good debut album she served and she did it good, congrats, she is so talented and it shows
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Aug 31, 2020