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Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Pennsylvania singer-songwriter was produced with Randall Dunn.
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  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, American Underground, Electro-Acoustic
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Uncut
    Jun 3, 2015
    80
    Singular and unsettlingly sophisticated. [Jul 2015, p.76]
  2. Mojo
    Jun 10, 2015
    80
    The 6ft 5in, broad-shouldered Gibson finally sounds the part. [Jul 2015, p.90]
  3. Jun 2, 2015
    70
    If it often gets over on mood rather than message, Gibson turns out to be an impressively good mood guy, and the production (by Gibson and Randall Dunn) gets the details right, making Carnation sound like a middle-of-the-night album for a man whose sense of style is matched only by his knack for poor choices.
  4. Carnation restores some of the eerie, discombobulated feel of his debut.
  5. Jun 9, 2015
    65
    Carnation is at its best when Gibson unabashedly embraces his eccentricities.
  6. Q Magazine
    Jun 2, 2015
    60
    Gibson's music has a strange timelessness faded and well-mulched, though there are moments when the mood proves a little too sludgy to be memorable. [Jul 2015, p.106]
  7. Jun 2, 2015
    43
    On Carnation, he tries and fails to be something other than himself.

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