Heave To (studio album)
by Olivia Block

Heave To by Olivia Block
Year: 2006
Release date: 2006-10-01
Overall rank: 25,051st   
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74/100 (from 12 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of the 2000s (4,714th)
Award Best albums of all time (25,051st)

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Overall rank: 25,051st | 2000s rank: 4,714th | 2006 rank: 477th

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74/100 (from 12 votes)
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12/09/2025 18:38 Exist-en-ciel   4,71270/100
 
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01/18/2019 22:24 Fischman   11,84166/100

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I'd love to see the making of this album. The program lists various musicians playing various "normal" instruments like cello, clarinet, trumpet, etc...

... but in listening, hearing those things is not readily apparent. There is so much electronically manipulated sound as to make the origin of the natural acoustic elements [i]almost [/i]irrelevant.

Now here's the fascinating part; the music takes all these acoustic, or organic, instruments and mixes them with so much electronic sound, making them highly inorganic, electronic (artificial), manipulated, etc. But the final product seems entirely organic. It's a sort of crazy full circle of sound. On paper, it's something that should not be, but then here it is. It seems utterly brilliant to me in a way I've never encountered before, that something deliberately made unnatural ends up sounding,[i] and feeling, [/i]so natural. The rhythm of nature seems very much present in her electronic manipulations.
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