''The Morning Star'' is the eighth
studio album by American musician
Daniel Bachman. It was released on July 27, 2018, by Three Lobed Recordings.
Critical reception
''The Morning Star'' was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At
Metacritic
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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an
average
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score of 80 based on 9 reviews.
Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 83 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 5 reviews.
Thom Jurek of
AllMusic
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noted the album is "at once brave and solitary, gentle and bracing, provocative and spiritually resonant. It extends Bachman's reach, allowing him to paint the innermost dimensions of the world he perceives and cleave it open for light to flood in and illuminate it for us."
Accolades
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
*
Daniel Bachman – Primary artist, guitar
* Forrest Marquisee – fiddle
* Ian McColm – cymbals
Production''
* Scott Caligan – layout
* Patrick Klem – mastering, mixing
References
2018 albums
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