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100
It is like the musical soundtrack to wandering through an unfamiliar English forest under the influence of magic mushrooms.
90
Taken as a whole, Deep England is a remarkable, memorable thing. Disquieting and disorientating for sure, yet offering plenty of strange, macabre pleasure.
80
Where Pastoral is a deeply claustrophobic affair, Deep England is a dizzying work that, thanks to off-kilter choir reinterpretations, sounds vast and unimpeachable.
80
A dramatic reworking of Gazelle Twin’s techno-folk Pastoral album with the NYX choir adds layers of hair-raising chills.
80
Even in pure audio form, this electrifying live show remains a potent techno-pagan tapestry of intertwined voices, church bells, liturgical chants and occult spells.
Gazelle Twin's collaboration with choral drone choir NYX is an album centered around drama. Largely a reworking of Gazelle Twin's eclectic electronic album Pastoral from 2018, Deep England is so far removed from the style of that original work that you'd be forgiven for completely missing that fact. Even if the approach to these songs is vastly different from the original, the songs still maintain and even heighten the anxiety and theatrics of Pastoral. If Gazelle Twin's character on Pastoral ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Glory 7:14 | 95 |
| 2 | Folly 4:08 | 95 |
| 3 | Fire Leap 7:01 | 95 |
| 4 | Better in My Day 2:29 | 90 |
| 5 | Throne 5:36 | 95 |
| 6 | Jerusalem 7:19 | 100 |
| 7 | Deep England 8:49 | 100 |
| 8 | Golden Dawn 13:23 | 75 |
Total Length: 55 minutes
Year End Lists
| #10 | / | The Quietus |
| #12 | / | Louder Than War |
Added on: November 26, 2020