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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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UncutFeb 24, 2014Occasional throwaway aside, there are some real gnarled beauties on display here. [Mar 2014, p.80]
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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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Feb 24, 2014True to its title, Voices in a Rented Room is modestly scaled and simply structured; the tone and form established in a song’s first verse don’t change by the time we reach the third. But even within these confines, New Bums rarely retrace their steps.
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Feb 24, 2014On the strength of the songs here and the pitch perfect atmosphere they’ve conjured it would be criminal if we didn’t hear more from them in the future.
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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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Mar 6, 2014Voices in a Rented Room is, at its best moments, most certainly the start of something fruitful, even if there are a few small bumps early in the road.
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Feb 27, 2014In general, Voices in a Rented Room is a pleasant if undistinguished record, two old friends revelling in each other’s company and mutual talents with the occasional moment of technical or emotional aplomb interrupting the bonhomie.
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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.