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  • Summary: This is the debut release for the collaboration between producer Joanne Pollock and Aaron Funk of Venetian Snares.
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  1. 90
    This album comes so highly recommended because it’s strung out, not drawn out; it’s melodic not chronic and ultimately it’s both pleasant enough to listen to a few times and suggestively dour enough to suck you from there.
  2. Feb 27, 2014
    80
    Its greatest strengths are more memorable: the songwriting is strong, even if the album is a little top heavy, and it’s a lot of fun to watch Aaron Funk go way out on a limb without a safety net in sight.
  3. Feb 28, 2014
    80
    It's a piece of surrealism and absolutely beautiful to listen to.
  4. Feb 11, 2014
    70
    Poemss is very much a new venture for its makers that has precious little, if any, resemblance to their previous work. Instead, it’s something of a musical reinvention, and the possible beginning of a very fruitful partnership.
  5. Feb 11, 2014
    70
    Poemss plays like a journey, musically, but it's a journey of discovery and boundaries as the two differing producers find their common ground, a process you can hear throughout the album.
  6. Uncut
    Mar 7, 2014
    60
    Exposed and vulnerable, Funk has seldom sounded so sensible. [Apr 2014, p.78]
  7. Feb 11, 2014
    40
    The LP isn’t internally coherent, isn’t particularly successful on its own terms, which is probably more of a sin than any imputed association with this or that philosophy could ever be.

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