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The Low Anthem | Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
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The Low Anthem
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
2009 | Nonesuch
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The Low Anthem’s Oh My God, Charlie Darwin will unquestionably attract devotees. It will also likely (though undeservedly) draw some detractors – which one would expect when considering the effect of revisionist folk music upon the current critical and commercial climate. Not until the recent reign of Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver had folk-based American music inspired such widespread accolade.
There are always detractors, because there are always going to be listeners insistent upon declaiming a folk performer, if not an outright thief, at best, derivative. Never mind that that’s what great American music is built upon (a dependant yet revisionist mentality); there are going to be haters. And Charlie Darwin does often sound, in its way, similar to Justin Vernon and Fleet Foxes, but only insofar as all three performers seem so inextricably drawn to the past, so disinclined to consider or incorporate any current popular trends in their compositions. Although Charlie Darwin fails to maintain the consistently revelatory heights of For Emma, Forever Ago or Fleet Foxes, at its best, it is breathtakingly good; and its finest songs sound worn and ancient, engrained in the modern folk vernacular.
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