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EMILY HAINES AND THE SOFT SKELETON "Knives Don't Have Your Back" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.9
Users rating: 9.0 |
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Release: 26 Sep 2006
Label: Last Gang
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| Lost At Sea magazine |
Rating: 8.5 |
An inelegant, recreational air balances the beauty. The atmosphere is moody and steady: eeriness produced by echoes, sad wailing horns, and other instrumental effects intertwines with the classical charm of piano keys, occasional strings and smooth vocals.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 8.3 |
The gamut of human emotions originate in the heart, so to speak, and for 45 minutes we are expected to see that organ as the body’s only operator; its only troublemaker; its only recourse worth noting.
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 8.0 |
Knives Don't Have Your Back is a striking contrast—and a poignant, subtle companion—to last year's Live It Out.
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| Treble |
Rating: 8.0 |
Knives is the product of many years' work, but is especially informed by the recent death of her father, the poet and jazz musician, Paul Haines.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 7.3 |
Though sometimes excruciating, Knives is mostly inclusive in its catharsis. As a sobering meditation on modern melancholy, it's mired in loss but never completely loses.
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| Jam! |
Rating: 7.0 |
"All our songs will be lullabys in no time," she claims.
Honestly, most of them already are.
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Users comments
| rock_snob_in_training |
Rating: 7.0 |
if you like emily hanes in Metric than you will love this album. slightly softer than Metric, however it still has the true, honest-to-god emily hanes sound that fans have come to love. |
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