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Dec 3, 2024There are ambiguities and contradictions, ecstatic visions and crises of faith. And a quest, not for some imagined grail, but for earthly and private resolutions. All fixed to music of the exquisite variety, from radiant acoustic studies to billowing symphonic pop. [Dec 2024, p.24]
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Dec 16, 2024As much as the songs with the band click, “Earthsong,” which features just voice and acoustic guitar, is moving. While I hope that she continues to make vibrant music with others, Jennifer Castle can reveal vulnerability, eloquence and imagination all by herself.
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MojoDec 11, 2024Tuneful ’60s folk-rockers Lucky #8 and Mary Miracle raise the tempo while closer Fractal Canyon is a joyful epiphany of redemption. [Feb 2025, p.84]
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Record CollectorDec 3, 2024Elusive but unerringly questing and beautiful, Camelot thinks bigger than any billboard. [Christmas 2024, p.130]
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Dec 3, 2024“Blowing Kisses” serves as the emotional anchor of Castle’s stunning seventh album, Camelot, which feels like the sort of bold breakthrough that her peers in U.S. Girls and the Weather Station respectively experienced with In a Poem Unlimited and Ignorance.
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Dec 3, 2024Castle’s stock in trade is championing the perfectly imperfect. While not everything on Camelot is as easily digestible as [“Mary Miracle” and “Full Moon In Leo”] —“Trust” and “Louis” prove to interrupt the flow at the album’s beginning —the bookended piano and string ballads of the opening “Camelot” and later “Blowing Kisses” more than smooth things out. “Blowing Kisses” is particularly soulful and imparts a bit of Randy Newman’s air of nostalgia without any of the cynicism.