Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
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CRITIC REVIEWS
80
A folk beating heart protected by unquenchable fires.
8mo
80
Focusing her experimentalism into cohesive art-pop, Eartheater delivers her finest record yet.
78
After 2018’s prickly IRISIRI, the Queens experimental musician narrates a personal and artistic rebirth in spare songwriting fleshed out with acoustic guitar, strings, and turbulent sound collages.
77
The album is an alluring, heady mix of skewed folktronica, avant garde noise and opulent orchestral tones which combine to cement Eartheater’s place in every discerning music fan’s end of year lists.
70
If past Eartheater albums felt too chilly or obscure, then this bracingly open group of songs demands an overall reassessment.
70
Her fourth sees her exploring darker, richer tones, drawing herself up to a mythic height as she conjures a fiery, fantastical rebirth.
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When I saw that this album was going to pivot even harder into the folktronica that Eartheater started her career with, I was a little nervous. Her previous attempts at folktronica on 2015's "Metalepsis" and "RIP Chrysalis" varied from forgettable to strange, without anything sticking out as particularly engaging to my own sensibilities. I felt that "Trinity" and "Irisiri" were steps in the right direction, but again, lacked a sense of purpose and ... read more
I loooove the aesthetic of this album
Fav Tracks: Volcano, faith consuming hope, below the clavicle
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Track List
| 1 | Airborne Ashes 3:26 | 79 |
| 2 | Metallic Taste of Patience 3:50 | 79 |
| 3 | Below The Clavicle 3:58 | 89 |
| 4 | Burning Feather 1:25 | 71 |
| 5 | How To Fight 3:31 | 82 |
| 6 | Kiss of The Phoenix 3:03 | 79 |
| 7 | Volcano 4:35 | 89 |
| 8 | Fantasy Collision 4:38 | 82 |
| 9 | Mercurial Nerve 2:15 | 72 |
| 10 | Goodbye Diamond 1:28 | 71 |
| 11 | Bringing Me Back 5:19 | 77 |
| 12 | Diamond In The Bedrock 4:13 | 80 |
| 13 | Faith Consuming Hope 4:50 | 86 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
Year End Lists
| #3 | / | Bleep |
| #4 | / | The Vinyl Factory |
| #9 | / | Dazed |
| #15 | / | Dummy |
| #18 | / | FLOOD |
| #46 | / | Gorilla vs. Bear |
| #46 | / | Noisey |
| #49 | / | Crack Magazine |
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Added on: August 5, 2020