Apocalypse

2011, Apr 5

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk Americana 97 Highly Rated Drag City Records Pitchfork 8.0/10 A.V. Club B The Needle Drop 6/10 Rolling Stone 3.5/5 The Independent 4/5 All Music 4/5 Mojo 4/5 Pop Matters 7/10 Spectrum Culture 74% music OMH 4/5 Beats Per Minute 83% The Telegraph 4/5 The Irish Times 5/5 Uncut 8/10

Pitchfork 8.0/10 After the delicate, warm Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, Bill Callahan returns with a more idiosyncratic record.

A.V. Club B As befits Bill Callahan’s well-established perversity, the new Apocalypse starts out dark and menacing, and ends up blissful and sleepy. Throughout the album’s seven songs, Callahan does more than embrace oblivion; he already cornered that market on the Geiger-counter tape hiss of his early Smog recordings through the…

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Apocalypse on Rolling Stone.com.

The Telegraph 4/5 Wonderfully poetic words in Bill Callahan's Apocalypse Rating: * * * *