Music / rock

Ouroboros


Reviews (3)


Drowned in sound

d. 10. Mar. 2016

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Haydon Spenceley

d. 10. Mar. 2016

"Is this Ray LaMontagne's finest album? Probably. It's so different from the majority of his previous output that it might take some time to truly get to grips with. The coherence of the whole record is a joy. It would be too easy to dismiss this fine album. Don't do that. Instead enjoy one of 2016's most ambitious and fully-realised efforts from a singer-songwriter".


AllMusic

2016

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Marcy Donelson

2016

"Replete with consummate musicianship, Ouroboros is a deliberate work of album rock, something the songwriter concedes in a punchline-like lyric near the end of the closer: "Never gonna hear this song on the radio"".


Jyllands-posten

d. 11. Mar. 2016

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Peter Schollert

d. 11. Mar. 2016

""Ouroboros" er i den grad en albumoplevelse og et mesterligt opus. Pladen er en spændende og iørefaldende musikalsk rejse ud i det store univers, som ikke mindst britiske Pink Floyd tidligere har opsøgt. Numrene "While It Still Beats" og "A Murmuration Of Starlings" læner sig kærligt op ad briternes magiske lp'er fra første halvdel af 1970' erne. Der er noget syret og overjordisk over konstruktionerne, men i eksperimenterne bliver der holdt fast i de melodiøse røde tråde, der fører til de mest imødekommende numre, man kan forestille sig".