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  • Summary: Joel Thibodeau worked with Alex Somers and Jónsi on his third release as Death Vessel.
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Mercury Dime
Struck too high, my belt bleeds From the mountain to the dye From the dye to the deep Elsy mallow, where are you? Show your brothers on the floor Of... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Feb 24, 2014
    90
    Island Intervals is barely over half an hour, but it's so rich with mood and detail that it stretches out and out and out to the horizon and beyond.
  2. Feb 24, 2014
    80
    The album is one full of highlights, with a sad beauty surrounding it that makes these songs immediately deeper, more connective, and more exciting than anything Death Vessel has brought us before.
  3. Feb 25, 2014
    80
    Island Intervals marks a giant leap for Thibodeau, while not veering too far from his own trodden trail. Call it future folk, but in 10 years we’ll be calling it timeless.
  4. 75
    The wondrous melodies sometimes come across as overly whimsical and fey, but Death Vessels create a communicative link from the human heart straight to the unknown realms of the cosmos.
  5. Magnet
    Mar 12, 2014
    70
    The voice and lyrics still confound but it's the music on this concise third LP that demands notice. [No. 107, p.55]
  6. Feb 19, 2014
    70
    Recorded in Reykjavík with Sigur Rós collaborator Alex Somers and Múm’s Samuli Kosminen, the frosty twinkles and skittery beats complement Rhode Island-based Thibadeau’s alt-folk leanings.
  7. Feb 25, 2014
    50
    Island Intervals starts with songs that pit the intimate and the epic against each other, that shift tempo, texture, and scope in fascinating ways. But that set of complications can’t sustain itself.

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