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JOHN VANDERSLICE - Pixel Revolt
| StylusMagazine |
| Analog tape is dead. At the turn of the new year, Quantegy, at the time the world's only remaining producer of studio-grade magnetic recording media, shuttered up, leaving the world's analog nerds to have crises of faith that must be on the level of the Protestant Reformation. ...full text |
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| Popmatters |
| John Vanderslice is quickly proving himself to be one of the best songwriters to come around in a long time. Quietly pursuing a style that is as ambitiously literary as it is sonically multi-textural, he kills on both counts. Each listen offers more on every level, opening up wider and wider until the listener feels as if she could walk into this record, and live there, and never be bored....full text |
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| Splendidezine |
| With five albums now under his belt, John Vanderslice is beginning to look like a cult figure. He's never received widespread critical acclaim or seen overwhelming commercial success, but he always sticks around and travels in credible circles by offering rich rewards to anyone who takes the time to fully explore one of his albums. Vanderslice doesn't strike the very marrow of human isolation, he's not making an album about every state in the union, and he never steps forward with a life-affirming worldview; instead, he sets literature to song and aims for emotional response and involvement....full text |
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