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MojoSep 12, 2014The restless thump of Out For The West stands out. [Oct 2014, p.96]
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Aug 18, 2014This is emotional, mature art you listen to on some lonesome night--or with a loved one--intently, focused, and open. You will not be disappointed.
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Aug 20, 2014Decimation Blues examines with more boldness some of the possibilities hinted at in his previous recordings and brings them shuddering to life.
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Aug 18, 2014This is the sound of an artist open to a range of possibilities so vast they can't help but contradict each other, and he just can't be bothered by the confusion or annoyance those contradictions may cause his listenership. In the end it doesn't matter anyway, as Raposa is already on to one of the album's many moments of brilliance by the time our heads have stopped spinning from one of its moments of unfettered oddness.
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Aug 27, 2014Decimation Blues is solid throughout, with just a few scattered moments of unresolved confusion.
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Aug 29, 2014Castanets manage to keep those raw influences in sight, whilst tweaking and twisting them into something different, and at times intriguingly strange.