Holopaw - Holopaw Holopaw Image  Universal acclaim - based on 9
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3. Negative: 0 out of 9   1. 90     Repeated listening reveals
Holopaw to be both a richly textured and profoundly moving
record, one of the year's first truly mesmerizing folk albums.
2. A lesson in subtlety, 10 songs of abstract musical
impressions that foil today's connect-the-dots pop.   3.
Holopaw's cover art and Depression-era script logo might be
indie-folk standard issue, but the music contained within is a
refreshing, effective new use of the boundaries: a wood-paneled
Powerbook.   4. Its ten tracks wend their way through a forest
of oblique metaphors, kaleidoscopically fractured images and
alt-country instrumentation, their path lit only by the wounding
fragility of Orth's voice.   5. Th