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The Way The Wind Blows Image
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the third Hawk album for former Neutral Milk Hotel drummer Jeremy Barnes. Like previous efforts, it has an Eastern European flavor, although unlike previous efforts, it also includes contributions from Beirut's Zach Condon.
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
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  1. And though the album sags a little towards the end, with a few shorter instrumental numbers, it’s still an invigorating journey, a caravan of cavorting musicians, careening through the countryside, stopping only to play festivals and funerals.
  2. A curious, klezmer-infested charm.
  3. If you liked Beirut, you’ll love this.
  4. Uncut
    80
    Vivid, diverse and faintly trippy. [Nov 2006, p.99]
  5. Under The Radar
    70
    This is his best yet. [#15]
  6. The potency of AHAAH's genres of choice are both the album’s difficulty and strength; if you aren’t partial to Balkan brass, klezmer or mariachi, abandon all hope of sticking this one out.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Gifthorse
    Nov 5, 2006
    10
    I don't rate music very often, but this album is genius. The compositions have a timeless folk quality that would lend themselves to a I don't rate music very often, but this album is genius. The compositions have a timeless folk quality that would lend themselves to a wide variety of occasions, helped by the wide variety of acoustic instruments that they are played with. You can imagine hearing this music at weddings, funerals, wherever human emotion is at the forefront of proceedings. Expand
  2. leiris
    Nov 26, 2006
    8
    Pretty good stuff here. Even more enjoyable than his previous two.