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Q MagazineOct 2, 2012Leblanc doesn't break new ground, but he treads his haunted patch with quiet grace. [Sep 2012, p.104]
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Sep 20, 2012Cast The Same Old Shadow is a more complete work than Pauper's Field, the arrangements fuller and the songs more tightly knit, but it can still be laborious.
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Sep 20, 2012LeBlanc is clearly too aesthetically skilled to give up on the future. But it doesn't appear he is having fun at present.
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Sep 20, 2012The atmosphere is eerie rather than unsettling.
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Sep 20, 2012Cast the Same Old Shadow ultimately crumbles under the weight of its own despondency.
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Sep 20, 2012This is mood music, so little jumps out as the songs melt together. But a little goes a long way.
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Sep 20, 2012There's definitely real talent with LeBlanc but he needs to forget about having an image created for him and concentrate, as one of his musical heroes Townes Van Zandt might have put on, on writing for the sake of the song.
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Sep 20, 2012Unfortunately, the result is usually a bit syrupy and mawkish.
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Sep 20, 2012The album essentially involves wallowing in 45 minutes of one man's competently performed but largely uninteresting catharsis, and there are unlikely to be too many takers either now or in the future unless LeBlanc lowers his lofty ambitions and frankly, chills out a bit.
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Sep 20, 2012LeBlanc's garbled vocal delivery only serves to obscure weak lyrics.