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Yann Tiersen
- Record Label: Mute
- Release Date: Apr 4, 2025
- Summary: the two-disc release from French composer Yann Tiersen was inspired by a European sailing trip and features eight piano tracks and five electronic tracks.
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- Record Label: Mute
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Apr 4, 2025Rathlin from a Distance/The Liquid Hour is comforting, inventive, and affecting -- sometimes alternately and sometimes all at once -- and feels strangely personal considering its multifaceted approach.
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MojoApr 4, 2025The title track, inspired by views of County Antrim's scenic Rathin Island, is an exercise in crepuscular melancholy that inexorably yields to uplifting chordal beauty - shafts of sunlight dispelling the Gloom. The four tracks that comprise The Liquid Hour, meanwhile, evince Tiersen's skill as an electronic orchestrator. [May 2025, p.91]
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UncutApr 4, 2025If "The Liquid Hour" is restless over a longer stretch, its conclusion is nonetheless charming. [Apr 2025, p.39]
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Record CollectorApr 4, 2025[Rathlin From A Distance] assert his niche in the near-minimalist canon. .... The Liquid Hour is a contrasting group of ambient electronica grooves. [Apr 2025, p.105]