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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. STAFF | January 6th 24 |
Maria BC nails her atmosphere, that's for sure, and when she accompanies her psychy ambient folk with glitchy shit, her proposition surpasses most of modern indie folk. Still a bit too long - and not enough glitch!!! - but a great record nonetheless.
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| 3.5 great | ajcollins15 | October 25th 23 |
In the one year since her debut album ?Hyaline,? you can sense a true sense of progression in Maria?s sonic ideas and structure. Everything on ?Spike Field? is more focused and has a much richer sense of ambiance and texture. But, with that said for an ambient folk record with a heavy leaning on post-rock and indie folk I wish she pushed this idea further. There are some great examples on this album of rich and expansive-sounding ambient folk tracks like on the opening track ?Amber? with the guitars subtle build laced over booming drones that eventually overtake the track. Or even on the post-rock ballad of ?Return To Sender? or ?Daydrinker?. But this album has several tracks that dip into other areas of folk and singer/songwriter that I don?t think Maria is all that good at. For example the really awkward psychedelic folk track of ?Mercury? nothing fits together and it comes off as extremely awkward. Or even the odd piano lead closer to ?Spike Field?. Still the experimentation on tracks like ?Lacuna? and even the aforementioned ?Spike Field? do add a lot to the experience. Overall Maria is still showing a lot of promise and I hope to see her continue to build on these ideas.
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| 4.1 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | January 15th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | emmny | December 25th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Rmazer | December 21st 23 |
| 3.5 great | sncold | December 19th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | December 14th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | December 3rd 23 |
| 3.0 good | fog CONTRIBUTOR | December 1st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pangea | October 27th 23 |
| 3.5 great | efp123 | October 25th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | jesper STAFF | October 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | October 23rd 23 |
| 4.2 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | October 17th 23 |
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