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- Record Label: Joyful Noise
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2018
- Summary: The fifth full-length release for the Rhode Island indie folk band was inspired by a Buddhist fable about a doll made of salt who searches for herself by going into the sea.
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- Record Label: Joyful Noise
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Folk
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Feb 22, 2018Like the protagonist of The Incredible Shrinking Man, the journey results in a sort of epiphany of infinity which, despite the album’s short running-time, resonates long after it’s finished.
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Mar 2, 2018To paraphrase just a touch, post-crash, necessity is very much the mother of inventiveness here. But out of that echoing vastness comes a gentle sense of melody that reveals itself, bit by bit, through repeated visits.
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Feb 22, 2018This is the most consistent album to date by a band whose flashes of brilliance hitherto seemed often dissolved in their encumbering desire to set down a surfeit of ideas on each record. Here, their creative energies are reconciled just as the salt doll is reconciled with the sea.
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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2018If Ben Knox Miller's vocals barely break the surface, underneath lies a record of hidden depths. [Apr 2018, p.112]
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Feb 23, 2018It’s an admirable essay in re-invention, brought about by necessity certainly, but no less successful for all that.
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Feb 22, 2018The Low Anthem have explored this minimalist, moving stylistic space before, but never so relentlessly and affectingly. Almost completely stripped of virtuosity, The Salt Doll may alienate certain traditional roots fans but has the potential to bewitch musers and wanderers.
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MojoFeb 22, 2018Occasionally, delicate folktronica beauty mixes dreamy acoustic music with intense, layered electronics, while at others, the ambient wash leaves so little to focus on it's hard not to wonder if they didn't simply fall asleep in the studio. [Apr 2018, p.95]
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Feb 26, 2018
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