A Quiet Darkness

Houses - A Quiet Darkness
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2013 Ratings: #785 / 1115
User Score
Based on 9 ratings
Liked by 1 person
April 16, 2013 / Release Date
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic

This grandiose set of songs cobbled together from decaying sound scraps has all the ominous mystery and majesty of a silent twilight, and all the implied struggle of the abandoned structures where and from which it was created.

70
PopMatters

It’s a few steps away from hitting major highs, but it does the most important thing for an album of its kind: it falls together and clicks into place.

70
The 405

This grandiose set of songs is woven together from the wreckage of ominous uncertainty and muted sadness, a melodic ode to the (theoretical) anguish of destruction and longing.

60
Consequence of Sound

Houses accomplish their aim of filling an hour with a cinematic, transportive music—a perfect soundtrack to milling about the end times.

56
Pitchfork

The problem here is that A Quiet Darkness comprises mostly dirges, and dirges that don’t do a hell of a lot to distinguish themselves from each other.

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Track List

  1. Beginnings
  2. The Beauty Surrounds
  3. Big Light
  4. The Tired Moon
  5. Peasants
  6. Carrion 
  7. What We Lost
  8. Smoke Signals
  9. Tenderly
  10. The Bloom
  11. A Quiet Darkness
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Added on: April 15, 2013