The Grenadines
The Grenadines
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The skinny
d. 3. May 2017
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George Sully
d. 3. May 2017
"It's a bold, considered whole; it's rich in theatrical texture and ambient psychedelia, but it's not an easy listen. Often deliberately discordant, it won't be to everyone's tastes, certainly not to fans of Palmer's poppier work. This is Palmer filtered through LPD's dark and oblique narrative lens, with her familiar vocal offset by Ka-Spel's gravelly, otherworldy poetry".
Drowned in sound
d. 9. May 2017
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Nina Keen
d. 9. May 2017
"Each song tells its own story so intensely and so completely, like 11 musical horror novellas, that listening to any of them individually produces an experience more like that of listening to a shortish, intense, masterpiece-like album, especially as the songs often have a few different musical sections and ideas. The chord sequences are longer too than we're used to from either artist".
The Boston globe
d. 4. May 2017
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Marc Hirsch
d. 4. May 2017
""I Can Spin a Rainbow" finds her [Amanda Palmer] bouncing ideas off of the Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel, whose aggressively experimental approach to what a song can entail is so specific and unyielding that the album forces her into new modes ... It's as out-there as Palmer has ever gotten. For as much as she's positioned herself as a provocateuse, she's always been a performer who drags her audience - kicking and screaming, if necessary - to where she wants to take them. Here, she doesn't really care if she leaves anyone behind. "I Can Spin a Rainbow" isn't a full-throated Palmer album, where she whips herself into one emotional lather or another. It's not about feeling deep feelings. It's about poetry and the void and capital-A Art, and it's nearly inaccessible practically by design".