Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
Its precise solo guitar work and passage between Renaissance material and blues give the album a clear identity, while the track-to-track shifts keep it from feeling like a tightl…
What we noticed
- The arrangements stay centered on Renbourn’s fingerpicked acoustic guitar, with no full-band rhythm section driving the songs.
- Renaissance-derived instrumental pieces sit beside blues songs such as “Lost Lover Blues” and “Can’t Keep From Crying,” making the changes of musical idiom audible from track to track.
- In the later sequence, instrumental tracks alternate with sung blues numbers, and “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” closes on the vocal side of that pattern.
- Composition 25% of the score
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7/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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8/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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7/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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7/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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7/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
production, performance, arrangement
whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
running order, pacing, length
Known within its scene. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 Another Monday 1:53
- 2 Ladye Nothinge's Toye Puffe 1:32
- 3 I Know My Babe 3:30
- 4 Waltz 2:01
- 5 Lost Lover Blues 1:59
- 6 One For William 2:53
- 7 Buffalo 2:36
- 8 Sugar Babe 4:34
- 9 Debbie Anne 1:43
- 10 Can't Keep From Crying 2:04
- 11 Day at the Seaside 1:14
- 12 Nobodys Fault but Mine 1:55
Reference: MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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