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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
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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If past Eartheater albums felt too chilly or obscure, then this bracingly open group of songs demands an overall reassessment.
I have to hold my hands up and say I’m well late to the party with Eartheater, but this is one of those records that enticed me in like a siren, so much that I had to hear it again straight after my first listen to really try and take it in. US multi-instrumentalist and producer Eartheater combines influences of folk, ambient, noise, industrial and dream pop all into one surreal record that sounds like the score to an imaginary film. Eartheater’s ability to pair together sonic ... read more
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Track List
- Airborne Ashes
- Metallic Taste of Patience
- Bellow The Clavicle
- Burning Feather
- How To Fight
- Kiss of The Phoenix
- Volcano
- Fantasy Collision
- Mercurial Nerve
- Goodbye Diamond
- Bringing Me Back
- Diamond In The Bedrock
- Faith Consuming Hope
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