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The highlight on "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle" is the personal and cohesive songwriting. Along with the expanded instrumentation, Bill Callahan creates vivid and atmospheric vignettes through these poignant metaphors. Everything is just simply beautiful on this record.
Color: Brown
FAV TRACKS: Eid Ma Clack Shaw, Jim Cain, All Thoughts Are Pray to Some Beast, The Wind and The Dove, Too May Birds
LEAST FAV: My Friend, Rococo Zephyr
The highlight on "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle" is the personal and cohesive songwriting. Along with the expanded instrumentation, Bill Callahan creates vivid and atmospheric vignettes through these poignant metaphors. Everything is just simply beautiful on this record.
Color: Brown
FAV TRACKS: Eid Ma Clack Shaw, Jim Cain, All Thoughts Are Pray to Some Beast, The Wind and The Dove, Too May Birds
LEAST FAV: My Friend, Rococo Zephyr
God I love this, it's everything that I love about late 2000's early 2010's folk. The instrumentals are luscious, and Callahan's performance is wondrous. Everything that makes a folk album charming and enjoyable in the first place. Can't recommend this enough.
Standout: My Friend
Favs: Jim Cain, Eid Ma Clack Shaw, Too Many Birds, Rococo Zephyr, Faith/Void Least fav: All thoughts are prey to some beast
Standout: My Friend
Favs: Jim Cain, Eid Ma Clack Shaw, Too Many Birds, Rococo Zephyr, Faith/Void Least fav: All thoughts are prey to some beast
Everybody get together because Bill Callahan has a new collection of his unique stories to tell, promising a beautiful evening, based on the important elements of life: a smile, a kiss, a tear...
"Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle” neatly summarizes all the qualities that make Bill Callahan such an extraordinary singer-songwriter. A Drag City musician through and through, Callahan completes a trinity of idiosyncratic, otherworldly songwriters with Jason Molina and Will Oldham, and fans of either artists should surely love “Eagle.” But Callahan carves out his own identity through warm baritone and gorgeous, intricate chamber folk arrangements, as well as his own ... read more
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Year End Lists
| #2 | / | MOJO |
| #11 | / | Uncut |
| #17 | / | A.V. Club |
| #24 | / | Pitchfork |
| #30 | / | Cokemachineglow |
| #32 | / | Clash |
| #35 | / | The Line of Best Fit |
| #38 | / | Stereogum |
| #41 | / | PopMatters |
| #44 | / | musicOMH |
MISC LISTS
| #443 | / | NME Top 500 of All Time |
Track List
- Jim Cain
- Eid Ma Clack Shaw
- The Wind and The Dove
- Rococo Zephyr
- Too Many Birds
- My Friend
- All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast
- Invocation of Ratiocination
- Faith/Void
