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| Fires in Distant Buildings | ||||
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| Studio album by Gravenhurst | ||||
| Released | October 25, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Shoegazing | |||
| Length | 52:24 | |||
| Label | Warp Records [1] | |||
| Producer | Nick Talbot | |||
| Gravenhurst chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.1/10 [3] |
Fires in Distant Buildings is an album by the British singer-songwriter Gravenhurst, released in 2005. [4] [5]
Spin thought that "all too often ... the album fades into the background for long, dull stretches." [1] The Times wrote that "sprawling structures and Low/Nick Drake/Velvets template are stretched to the point where songs—as opposed to what have, in the past, seemed like extemporisations—begin to reveal their compact shapes." [6]
AllMusic wrote that "Gravenhurst flesh out their starkly lovely fusion of British folk, dream pop, and electronica with full-fledged drums, electric guitars, and even denser electronic atmospheres." [2]
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