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- Artist(s): Ben Chasny, Donovan Quinn
- Summary: This is the debut release for the collaboration by Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and Donovan Quinn of Skygreen Leopards.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Indie Folk
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Feb 24, 2014It's a fine album that reveals more about the band's humor and skill with each new listen.
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UncutFeb 24, 2014Occasional throwaway aside, there are some real gnarled beauties on display here. [Mar 2014, p.80]
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Feb 26, 2014Alcoholic ne’er-do-wells or not, New Bums has allowed the duo to ditch old genre entrapments and celebrate new life as troubadours of enrapturing darkness.
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Feb 24, 2014New Bums finds two decidedly specific songwriters' styles and voices mesh into something new and different. The combination results in a strange, haunted look into imagined desert scenes, cheap motels, and tales of depraved living, floating by on tunes so unassuming they disappear before the darkness ever truly sets in.
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Mar 25, 2014Maybe they were trying to evoke Leonard Cohen’s Songs From a Room but they came up with something sweeter (albeit noir-ish) in the process.
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MojoMar 21, 2014This is not an uplifting listen. [Apr 2014, p.91]
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Feb 24, 2014Both men put tender wheeze and murmur into their voices, but sing in unison or octaves as a default mode, which grows dull almost instantly.
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