Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
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| Studio album by The Low Anthem | ||||
| Released | September 2, 2008 (original release) June 29, 2009 (re-release) |
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| Recorded | Block Island, RI, Adorea Studio, Hamden, CT, Ouestern Studio Williamsburg, NY, Harlem, NY | |||
| Genre | Indie folk | |||
| Length | 42:01 | |||
| Label | Self-release (original version) Bella Union (UK) Nonesuch (US) |
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| Producer | Jesse Lauter | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| Allmusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | (B) |
| Drowned In Sound |   |
| The New York Times | (positive) |
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| Paste | (90/100) |
| Robert Christgau |
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Oh My God, Charlie Darwin is the third studio album by American indie folk band The Low Anthem, self-released in 2008, and re-released on June 29, 2009 on Nonesuch Records and Bella Union. Upon its re-release, vocalist and guitarist Ben Knox Miller stated that "listening to the record is akin to taking shelter during a lightning storm among nostalgic remnants in a water-damaged church, whose new tenants – rats, owls, stray dogs and snakes – comprise a burgeoning, cacophonous, dog-eat-dog ecosystem."
In 2012, Tom Jones covered the song, "Charlie Darwin", on his studio album, Spirit in the Room.
In 2010, Ben Knox Miller noted, "The Darwin record was this record about environmental decay and social de-evolution and the death of morality and all these very grand things."
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