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Sep 9, 2016Goodbye to Language is a powerful, intoxicating album and one of Lanois' best works in at least a decade.
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MagnetSep 20, 2016There's melody and rhythm, but mostly the overtones float through the ether, seldom resolving into anything approaching a song, although the overall effect is soothing and dreamy. [No. 135, p.54]
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MojoSep 9, 2016A series of richly textured, ambient instrumentals from pedal steel guitar. [Oct 2016, p.92]
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Sep 9, 2016For the most part, the music gives the illusion of being something sourceless, something created without effort--not product, but pure being; not labor, but freedom.
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Sep 16, 2016The listener either needs to 1) absorb the unifying mood in its entirety or 2) keep an ear out for isolated moments of transcendent yet touch-and-go beauty. Fortunately for the headphone listeners out there, Goodbye to Language has an abundance of both.
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UncutSep 9, 2016The album sounds like one good idea stretched out to a meandering and repetitive 40 minutes. [Oct 2016, p.32]
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Nov 3, 2016A stripped down album, Lanois' production is pristine and the contoured soundscapes here should be digested as a whole, rather than consumed as individual tracks.