Eats Darkness

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 35:44

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Amelia Raitt

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Amelia Raitt is a former writer for the television program Mr. Belvedere and has been writing about pop music of all colors and stripes for eMusic since 2005. S...more »

05.19.09
Apostle Of Hustle, Eats Darkness
2009 | Label: Arts & Crafts / IODA

Apostle of Hustle is the going concern of Andrew Whiteman, who sometimes plays in Broken Social Scene, which every day is feeling more like a loose collective of like-minded musicians than a proper band. Whiteman started out incorporating Cuban guitar and circling Latin percussion into his 90s-indie guitar color splashes, but he has moved away from that place slowly but surely since 2004's Folkloric Feel. This doesn't mean he's gotten boring, though; on Eats Darkness, he finds room for an abundance of weird noises and odd pairings, puncturing the calm of a patient motorik groove with jarring bursts of woolly saxophone on "soul unwind" and on "perfect fit," delivering an almost-demented carny barker turn through several layers of vocal processing while a single synth burbles on to itself in the background.

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Rushed.

MarketFresh

This album seems rushed, not very high quality. I loved their previous two albums, but the song writing on this is just kind of uninteresting. I know Apostle of Hustle can do better and I am thoroughly disappointed in this album.

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a little short

EMUSIC-01EFDDE7

The album is different from the artist's previous albums, but is also much shorter. There are interludes that I don't really care for, and there are only a few tracks that are really great. I was a bit disappointed with this album, based on expectations from their previous works.

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big hits, big misses

joshua1eight

Every song gets five stars, except for tracks 1, 4, 7, 10 & 12, which get NO stars. Seriously, this should have been an 8 song EP. It could have been a contender for best album (in my book) of the year. I really really like AOH, got all their stuff, but they should have put their energy into writing 2 more radical songs instead of those other 5 wastes of time.

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