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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release from Mat Ball, Jonathan Downs, Efrim Manuel Menuck, and Patch as WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
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  1. Sep 18, 2024
    80
    For some listeners, these lyrics might strike as free association, but there's a coherent logic to be traced from one line to the next, and strong thematic ground to be established as Menuck makes an important connection between the privatized experiences of the domestic space and that of the globally conscious citizen.
  2. Sep 18, 2024
    80
    What’s most absorbing is that No More Apocalypse Father can tackle such weighty themes and still be a beautiful listen from start to finish. I’m unsure whether that leaves me hopeful or pleasantly distracted for one more precious moment.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 18, 2024
    70
    Channelling their individual talents for explorations of the sublime, they make effects-heavy and expansive dronescapes that upset “post-rock” assumptions while tilting obliquely at Alice Coltrane’s organ/synth works, Swans, Suicide and Scott Walker’s avant-gardism. [Nov 2024, p.43]
  4. Mojo
    Sep 18, 2024
    60
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Efrim Manuel Menuck and Mat Ball of Big Brave joined guitar forces to make music that stood up to the Montreal cold. The heat generated by the band (completed by Jonathan Downs and Patch One of Maine post-rockers Ada) isn’t entirely the kind you huddle around for comfort, though. [Nov 2024, p.87]