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Nov 19, 2013Here he successfully creates a convergence of harmonious and dissonant sounds, tensions and spaces, which reflect the subtleties in the complex emotions that construct such a powerful force.
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Nov 19, 2013Don’t Tell The Driver spends the whole of its hour-long running time in what feels like a slow melt, with melodies sliding down its surface alluringly.
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Nov 19, 2013Don’t Tell the Driver is far too gorgeously personal, too hushed, too subtle, too free-rangingly ruminative to ever play out on a public stage. Instead its chaotic swirls, its muted flares of brass, its clackety storms and ebbs of drumming seem destined to play out in private theaters.
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Nov 26, 2013It’s a fluidly cohesive album that develops its music themes--that nautical lurch, that calming lull--over eleven carefully yet imaginatively arranged songs.
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The WireDec 11, 2013Even when he's calling all the shots and playing most of the instruments himself, Turner seems to stay in the background. For the most part, his strategy works. [Nov 2013, p.62]
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Nov 19, 2013Turner’s unpredictable guitar work here is of a piece with the other elements in these compositions, but the ruffled imperfection of it all is quite beautiful in its difficulty.
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Nov 19, 2013Turner is clearly a sensitive, thoughtful and probably pleasant man whose musicianship is way less pretentious than is being advertised.
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Dec 16, 2013It's apparent that a lot of work has gone into paring these jams down into a focused and always interesting collection.
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Nov 20, 2013While the album brims with such expansive themes and stunning musicianship, it too often falls into low-slung ambience rather than explore the evocative power it demonstrates all too infrequently.
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Nov 19, 2013As always, the emotions lie in the spaces between the pellucid notes.