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Jul 2, 2015Who is the Sender? is a beautiful piece of work from a veteran talent that world has finally woken up to experience.
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MagnetJun 4, 2015The songs all deal with weighty subjects, but the music, a s pleasing hybrid of blues, rock, classical and gospel impulses shines the comforting light of faith onto every time. [No. 120, p.54]
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MojoMay 20, 2015Who Is The Sender? is effectively a set of moving, funeral-paced closing tracks addressing familiar themes--political disillusionment, morality and spiritual wonder. [Jun 2015, p.92]
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Q MagazineApr 29, 2015From start to finish, it's moving and beautiful stuff. [Jun 2015, p.105]
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UncutApr 28, 2015On occasion, the production on Who IS The Sender? threatens to swamp the plain-speaking poetics of Fay's lyrics with soupy sentimentality.... But just as often, producer Joshua Henry correctly gauges the tenor of these songs. [May 2015, p.74]
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Apr 28, 2015Presented with genuine humility, these relatively simple songs are nonetheless brimming with moral authority.
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Apr 27, 2015Who Is the Sender? has a gently melancholy, a resigned aura that looks lovingly on this world but also speculates on the next. Both elements, the careful observation of what is and the restless querying about what may be, meld into a wise and spiritually resonant whole.
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Apr 27, 2015Taken at a meditative, reflective pace, it’s a dense, magisterial record, but there’s always space for Fay’s humble, declamatory “alternative gospel” ruminations.
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Apr 27, 2015Fay is now in his 70s, and his beautifully hymnal fourth studio album contains sublime, heartfelt ruminations on nature and the world from someone who knows his time is running out.
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Apr 27, 2015Who Is the Sender? effectively doubles his recorded output and moves him from the category of a curiosity who returned after a four-decade absence to make a third great album to someone perhaps capable of doing so in perpetuity.
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May 26, 2015Lovingly performed and sympathetically produced, Who Is the Sender? is a fine reminder of Fay’s rightly celebrated songwriting gifts.
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Apr 27, 2015It means well and conjures fellow feeling and makes you think the long thoughts. But it is a trudge, and strangely ponderous in its smallness.
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Apr 27, 2015All slow builds and gradual dawnings, this rich follow-up ponders the artistic process with a gentleness that belies great depth.
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The WireMay 15, 2015Fay aficionados may be unsettled that our man seems to have been kidnapped by aliens and reprogrammed as a frail new age gospel singer. Eccentricity is kept to a minimum, as thin songwriting is padded out by repetitive chanting of a chorus's final line. [May 2015, p.49]