Carnation
Album • Jun 02 / 2015 • 11 songs, 38m 26s
Art Pop
Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
horseshit
4.3
/ 10
Like 2013’s Me Moan, Carnation finds Josh Martin stepping out of isolation and away from batches of samples to write and record as Daughn Gibson with other musicians in real-time. Here, he works with Seattle producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Marissa Nadler) and a cast including string arranger Eyvind Kang and former Earth multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore.
Built on indulgence: Carnation is a gratuitous, unpredictable listen that sometimes leaves the listener on the outside of an in-joke.
6.5
/ 10
With his thick baritone, the Pennsylvania native paints a new gallery of grim, lyrical portraits of lonely outsiders and anomalous weirdos.