Guild of the Asbestos Weaver

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Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
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Studio album by
Released23 August 2019 (2019-08-23)
Genre Avant-pop [1]
Length39:40
Label Thrill Jockey
Alexander Tucker chronology
Don't Look Away
(2018)
Guild of the Asbestos Weaver
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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AOTY64/100 [2]
Metacritic 74/100 [3]
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Guild of the Asbestos Weaver is the eighth studio album by English musician Alexander Tucker. It was released on 23 August 2019 by Thrill Jockey. [6]

Contents

The album is inspired by the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and references H. P. Lovecraft and Alan Moore. [7] [5]

Critical reception

Guild of the Asbestos Weaver was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 74, based on 7 reviews. [3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Energy Alphas"7:21
2."Artificial Origin"9:05
3."Montag"5:48
4."Precog"7:06
5."Cryonic"10:20

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References

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