The Morning Star (Daniel Bachman album)

The Morning Star is the eighth studio album by American musician Daniel Bachman. It was released on July 27, 2018, by Three Lobed Recordings.[5]

The Morning Star
Studio album by
Daniel Bachman
ReleasedJuly 27, 2018 (2018-07-27)
Genre
Length1:14:01
LabelThree Lobed
Daniel Bachman chronology
Daniel Bachman
(2016)		 The Morning Star
(2018)		 Green Alum Springs
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Guardian[4]
Pitchfork7.6/10[1]

Critical reception

The Morning Star was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80 based on 9 reviews.[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 83 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 5 reviews.[6]

Thom Jurek of AllMusic noted the album is "at once brave and solitary, gentle and bracing, provocative and spiritually resonant. It extends Bachman's reach, allowing him to paint the innermost dimensions of the world he perceives and cleave it open for light to flood in and illuminate it for us."[3]

Accolades
Accolades for The Morning Star
Publication Accolade Rank
AllMusic AllMusic's Top Folk and Americana Albums of 2018
N/A[7]

Track listing
The Morning Star track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Invocation"18:49
2."Sycamore City"12:53
3."Car"5:26
4."Song for the Setting Sun III"6:12
5."Song for the Setting Sun IV"11:48
6."Scrumpy"5:14
7."New Moon"13:38

Personnel

References
  1. Grosinger, Matt (July 27, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  2. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  3. Jurek, Thom. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  4. Rogers, Jude (July 27, 2018). "The Morning Star review – an immersive tangle of guitars, drones and bells". The Guardian. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  5. Masters, Marc (July 19, 2018). "Daniel Bachman Isn't Just Playing Guitar, He's Sculpting Sound". NPR. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  7. "Favorite Folk and Americana Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved October 3, 2020.


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