Ray LaMontagne
Part of the Light
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: RCA
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Album Review: Part of the Light by Ray LaMontagne
Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7/10
After stepping into the tone zone with Dan Auerbach for 2014's unexpected rock breakout Supernova, enigmatic folk artist Ray LaMontagne recruited like-minded producer Jim James (of My Morning Jacket fame) for his next album. The result was Ouroboros — a sprawling epic similar in style to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Upon receiving the album, his longtime label, RCA Records, didn't know what to do with it — what kind of modern major label artist releases a pseudo-concept album in 2016? So, it sat on the shelf for ….
Based on rating 3/5
We live in the age of the unreal. Russian bots pose as right-wing online activists, phishing scams as Facebook quizzes and potential Tinder hook-ups, Muppets as world leaders. In music too, we have boybands hailed as indie saviours, solo laptop fiddlers sounding like apocalyptic orchestras and 'transangels', R&B and rap acts trying to emulate self-improving AIs.
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