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80
Focusing her experimentalism into cohesive art-pop, Eartheater delivers her finest record yet.
10mo
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.
11mo
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.
11mo
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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1y
70
If past Eartheater albums felt too chilly or obscure, then this bracingly open group of songs demands an overall reassessment.
11mo
Eartheater quebra qualquer parâmetro usado para definir 'Phoenix: Flames Are Drew Upon My Skin' - um álbum que bebe das melhores fontes possíveis e com isso acaba criando um repertório cheio de elementos dos quais caracterizam os pontos altos, como em 'How To Fight', 'Volcano' e 'Diamond In The Bedrock' - de longe as melhores faixas.
There's a level of experimentalism that's considered right enough. Eartheater has a sense of delicacy towards her music, over a general narrative, 'Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin' is clearly and cloudly about the ressurrection of the human-self as a perspective. A fine line constract between noisey sound and composed instrumentation as a metaphor to life itself. Everything is messier but not crazy enough to be dispersive, is a crafted mess, such as the artist soul.
Trying to combine Halloween and Bonfire Night together in the same costume is not for mere mortals.
Also: "Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone with this sparkler up my bum"
What does this sound like? Sort of medieval tinged 'contemporary folk' with ASMR sprinkles, s'alright = NR
Also: "Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone with this sparkler up my bum"
What does this sound like? Sort of medieval tinged 'contemporary folk' with ASMR sprinkles, s'alright = NR
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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