Ivywild

"Just two years after Night Beds' intimate indie folk debut (...), Winston Yellen takes an unexpectedly sharp turn in style and production ... It's not outrageous to reference the previous year's LP1 by FKA Twigs in terms of far-reaching, exploratory production resulting in an artful and haunting alt-R&B/quasi-indie electronic record. Yellen's earthy falsetto keeps a toe in the Bon Iver realm here, as do a few of the tunes (such as the decidedly indie rock "Corner"), but the project as a whole is a liberal and audacious shift ... Acknowledging that Night Beds' strict chamber-folk fans are bound to be disappointed if not horrified, taken on its own Ivywild is sonically rich, adventurous, envelopingly wistful, and undeniably stunning".

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"Det seneste studiealbum Ivywild er en produktionsmæssig ekspansiv plade, men den sukkersøde popæstetik kammer fuldstændig over ... Den komplet generiske og fantasiløse blanding af moderne stilmæssige træk fra pop, hip hop, r'n'b og elektronisk musik kan slet ikke bære albummets 65 minutter lange spilletid, der føles som én lang ørkenvandring".

"The daring of Night Beds here is commendable, and overstuffed though it is, Ivywild is a beautiful and haunting album whose only flaw is that it offers too much of a good thing".

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