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CHARALAMBIDES - A Vintage Burden
| StylusMagazine | | For those desperate to pigeonhole A Vintage Burden into the Charalambides canon, it’d be fair to say it’s more of a ‘song’ type release than nearly all of their past collaborative work. It’s to the group’s credit that this doesn’t mean there is a reduction in the breadth or depth of their music....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Watching Chet grope (the only verb for it, given the tangled webs Krug weaves) his way through 2000 words that compare Shut Up I Am Dreaming to American Idol, Oblivion (I am all Master of all guilds now, Betz!), Hemingway and Pynchon (all while name-dropping “Spence” like the two were sipping scotch at the clubhouse while he wrote it) is a blast, but so what am I going to do with Charalambides? Because if Sunset Rubdown has managed to color in gravity’s rainbow, A Vintage Burden is just grave, and the only things shining through Tom and Christina Carter’s clouds are heaving gasps and muted melancholy....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Texas group Charalambides, considered by many to be the quietly serious godfathers of the whole freak-folk movement, have been turning out shimmering hush-folk masterpieces on cassette, CD-R and CD, since the early ‘90s, way back before there was any kind of movement to lead....full text |
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