Beware (Will Oldham album)
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| Studio album by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | ||||
| Released | 17 March 2009 | |||
| Genre | Americana, alt.country, indie folk | |||
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 Drag City Domino
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100 |
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| AllMusic |
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| Drowned in Sound | (4/10) |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The New York Times | |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
| PopMatters | (4/10) |
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| Spin |
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| The Skinny |
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| Tiny Mix Tapes |
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| Toro | (7.5/10) |
| Uncut |
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Beware is a studio album by singer-songwriter Will Oldham, released on March 17, 2009, on Drag City. The album is Oldham's seventh under the name Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Beware was recorded in October 2008 at Engine Studios in Chicago, IL. This album showcased a more upbeat and less melancholic side to Bonnie Prince Billy's music, with the artist attributing this to 'having found love' in a monologue to an audience on the album's subsequent tour. It was engineered by Neil Strauch and Will's backing band included Josh Abrams of Town & Country, Jennifer Hutt, Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang band, and Michael Zerang of Peter Brötzmann's and Ken Vandermark's jazz-combos. Guest artists included Leroy Bach (ex-Wilco), Jon Langford (of the Mekons, Waco Brothers), Greg Leisz, Rob Mazurek (of Chicago Underground Duo, Isotope 217), Nicole Mitchell, Azita Youssefi and others.
Critical response to Beware! was generally favorable and positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 74 ("Generally favorable reviews"), based on 32 professional reviews, and the average user rating for the album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 12 users' votes.
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