AOTY 2023

Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2020 Ratings: #424 / 868
User Score
Based on 413 ratings
2020 Ratings: #112
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
Sputnikmusic
A folk beating heart protected by unquenchable fires.
80
Spectrum Culture
Focusing her experimentalism into cohesive art-pop, Eartheater delivers her finest record yet.
78
Pitchfork

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
Beats Per Minute

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
Loud and Quiet
If past Eartheater albums felt too chilly or obscure, then this bracingly open group of songs demands an overall reassessment.
70
Uncut

Her fourth sees her exploring darker, richer tones, drawing herself up to a mythic height as she conjures a fiery, fantastical rebirth.

Stankysauce
NR

When you fard

Nightwing734
40

weird noises and acoustic guitar: the album

Maqtheus
70

sou de poucas palavras com esse

bobbyhabnay
80

eartheater is so cool and hot i should marry her

pascalishere
77

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

badonk
85

I loooove the aesthetic of this album
Fav Tracks: Volcano, faith consuming hope, below the clavicle

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Added on: August 5, 2020