★★★★★
Noah Gundersen's first full-length album opens with "Poor Man's Son," a nearly a cappella tune featuring the Seattle singer-songwriter harmonizing with his sister Abby. He strums a few times on his acoustic guitar, but that's mainly to let you know it's still there. Mostly the song is about these two siblings singing together and the quiet that creeps in around their syllables...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-04-18
★★★★★
There's a moment near the beginning of Noah Gundersen's fantastic debut album, called Ledges, where the singer/songwriter just lets loose. The song in question, a traditional Appalachian folk-like reverie called "Poor Man's Son," dwells for most of its runtime in a stripped down a cappella setting, Gundersen's voice melding with his sister's to create a sound that is instantly timeless. It feels like something that should have been on one of the T...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-03-28
★★★★★
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Noah Gundersen - LedgesNoah Gundersen - LedgesRelease Date: February 11, 2014
Record Label: Dualtone/Dine Alone
There's a moment near the beginning of Noah Gundersen's fantastic debut album, called Ledges, where the singer/songwriter just lets loose...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2014-03-28
★★★★★
In a 2010 article titled "An Incomplete History of How Noah Gundersen Became The Courage", Seattle Weekly painted a picture of a young man steeped in religion, family, and the albums of Dylan's Christian phase breaking out of a rigid home life to infect the world with folksy music. Under the influence of Counting Crows and Ryan Adams, Gundersen got a backing band called The Courage and went on tour...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Noah GundersenLedges (Dualtone) After a string of anticipatory EPs, Noah Gundersen's debut full-length delivers a collection of songs with a similar slow build. Throughout, the Seattle songwriter exhumes broken, penitent ballads that suddenly burst with a shock of power and catharsis. The pattern begins with a cappella opener "Poor Man's Son," harmonized gracefully with sister Abby...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
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BY MICHAEL BERICK
The title track's opening lines serve as a telling signpost to the dark-hued ruminations that course through Ledges' set of songs: "I've got some loose ends/I've done some damage/I've cut the rope so it frayed/I've got a lot of good friends/keeping me distracted/keeping my sanity safe...
- blurtonline.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
Like all folk singer-songwriters, Noah Gundersen can be referred to using a synecdoche -- or, in less pretentious wording: someone in which a single characteristic is used to describe them as a whole, or vice versa. While the term itself isn't the most well known, we see it all the time. I mean, just think about it...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Tweet Classic But Unfortunately Banal Folk Noah Gundersen, folk singer-songwriter of the band Beneath Oceans and more recently The Courage, released his first solo album, Ledges, earlier this week. His fourth release as a solo act, the album follows in the wake of three EPs, the most recent of which (2011's Family) seemed to weave in and out of genre lines, ambitious even for someone who's been active since 2005...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-02-18
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