Julianna Barwick (Brooklyn)
"[Nepenthe] deserves mention among the best and most artful ambient music being made today..."
--PITCHFORK, BEST NEW MUSIC
"…grand, gracefully sweeping choral music…[Nepenthe] isn't just accessibly, prettily head-filling and ethereal. It's downright medicinal, altering the listener's surroundings in ways that make them comfortable, yet still wondrously inviting."
--NPR, FIRST LISTEN
"this is music that invites you to lay all cynicism down, to be absorbed by it, and transported…exquisite in its eloquence, reflection and compassion." --THE GUARDIAN
"… one might imagine they're hearing the aural equivalent of the gorgeous [Icelandic] landscape where the album was put to tape."
--INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
"[Nepenthe is] not only her biggest and most ambitious production to date, but also the album that best showcases her gift for communicating complex emotional entanglements so simply and clearly they become almost weightless."
--ALLMUSIC
"...her best work to date, and easily one of the best albums I’ve heard this year." --TINY MIX TAPES
"On Nepenthe…Barwick’s work is proof positive that music itself can be a higher power." --POPMATTERS