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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Bhutanese-born guitarist Tashi Dorji features 10 improvised acoustic tracks.
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  • Record Label: Drag City
  • Genre(s): Experimental, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Improvisation
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Dec 3, 2024
    80
    We Will Be Wherever the Fires Are Lit is a particularly potent chapter in Tashi Dorji’s ongoing re-writing of possibilities for the six-string.
  2. The Wire
    Jan 3, 2025
    80
    The whole album seems to be incandescent with anger. You would have to travel a long way to hear an acoustic guitar album as tough as this. [Jan/Feb 2025, p.82]
  3. Dec 3, 2024
    80
    Dorji’s music is rapturously motivational, bolts of pure feeling that at least make me want to be a better citizen of the world. It is perennially honest about the long odds of the struggles that inspire it, too, how the work of fixing this place is never done.
  4. Dec 16, 2024
    80
    If nothing else, it leaves you receptive for the bruised and ravaged beauty of “meet me under the ruins,” as radiant as a Jack Rose raga, and a fitting elegy for all that precedes it.
  5. Dec 3, 2024
    70
    Dorji is simply one person making music in an isolated environment while the world is constantly in a tumultuous state, and his is simply his own feverish, spur-of-the-moment reaction to everything that's going on.
  6. Uncut
    Dec 3, 2024
    60
    “Flowers For The Unsung” teases out some quietly pretty melodies. However, the freeform avant approach of the album is not always an easy ride; the wildly experimental playing makes it a constantly surprising listen but often one that is very heavy, dense and a little overwhelming. [Review of the Year 2024, p.28]