Eternity of Dimming
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| Studio album by Frontier Ruckus | ||||
| Released | January 29, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Quite Scientific Records, Loose Music | |||
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Eternity of Dimming is the third full-length studio album by Frontier Ruckus. A double album of 20 songs, the record is nearly an hour and a half in duration. The album's lyrical text is also unusually prolific, containing approximately 5,600 words. Despite the dense and hardly immediate nature of the record, Eternity of Dimming received mostly favorable reviews—eliciting reactions of both hyperbolic praise and occasional vexation. Thematically, the record details childhood and adolescent memory within the suburban landscape of Metro Detroit.
AllMusic saw the album as "wonderfully unified, with a ghostly, flickering soundscape playing out behind Milia's sad but still reaffirming singing."Paste Magazine similarly added that "Frontier Ruckus has continued to evoke rich imagery and heartfelt emotion with the storied lyrics of vocalist Matthew Milia." Rob Reinhardt of Acoustic Café called the album "a quantum leap from the previous two [albums]."
CMJ would later write that the album "veritably overflows with images of middle-class American youth in the 1990s," by way of "treating junk drawers, garage sales, mini-van floors and the parking lot behind the 7-Eleven like hallowed ground...retreading the lines that bleed when the darkness of adulthood infringes upon the brightness of childhood...an exhaustive culmination of everything the band had been aiming for up until that point."
Being the first record with which Frontier Ruckus had signed with British label Loose Music, the release marked the band's first exposure to European press outlets. In an interview with Uncut in the UK, Matthew Milia described the lyrical landscapes throughout the album as "specific and personal...twisted and exaggerated," yet with each line containing "a truth that I've implanted." Rob Huges of Uncut claimed the band to be "at their blinding best on 'In Protection of Sylvan Manor' and 'Junk-Drawer Sorrow'"—giving the record a score of 8/10.
Mojo was positive yet more dubious about the record, stating: "Unbalanced and unrelenting, it's a fascinating album, if difficult to enjoy."
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