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BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - The Letting Go
| AV Club |
| Will Oldham has released a slew of one-off projects and re-workings of older material over the last three years, but his new Bonnie "Prince" Billy effort The Letting Go is his first "real" album since 2003's Master And Everyone. Recorded in Iceland with Björk's engineer Valgeir Sigurdsson and a few guest musicians (most notably, rhythm-minded folkie Jim White and deep-voiced mystic Dawn McCarthy), The Letting Go drifts on a rolling sea of acoustic strum, clacking percussion, lush strings, and Oldham croak....full text |
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| StylusMagazine |
| It doesn’t take a great Will Oldham record so much as a unique one these days: Oldham’s singular voice and penchant for unadorned roots music has left many of his records, under any guise, feeling a little same-y. I See a Darkness, under his Bonnie “Prince” Billy moniker, is largely regarded as his best album because it established a deathly mood and spun webs around Oldham’s mortality....full text |
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| The Independent |
| Bonnie "Prince" Billy's oeuvre is riddled with ambiguity and emotional confusion, and The Letting Go is no exception: love songs incorporate terms of fear and hate, and death is discussed with a discomfiting, almost jaunty, amiability. "When the numbers get too high/ Of the dead flying through the sky/ Oh, I don't know why/ Love comes to me," he sings in the opening "Love Comes To Me", and it's impossible to tell whether he's being spiteful, or happily haunted....full text |
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