Shaking Out The Numb
4.9/5
Critic Rating
We wanted to tell you more about FREE LOVE, so we enlisted our favorite creator of radio, Rumble Strip, to talk to us about what we made. Together we ended up creating a series of stories/arguments/walks in the woods/celebrations and auditory peeks into the world we were trying to touch in FREE LOVE. Some episodes are about individual songs - some of them are about being a musician- and some are about just being. Thank you so much to Tiny Desk and NPR Music for premiering one of the episodes first. You can listen to that and to all the episodes on our YouTube channel here: https://found.ee/SE_SOTNPodcastYT We are so grateful to our amazing team for making this happen, and to Erica for being so caring, insightful, and just really great at asking questions and being honest. We love you.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Thomas Adam Curry • Another Mag • Feb 2, 2021
"A short, whimsical and excellently made series, Shaking Out The Numb is a collaboration between music duo Sylvan Esso and Rumble Strip producer Erica Heilman. It’s energetic, richly musical and full of fun."
Score: 4.8
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Jan 20, 2021
"Shaking Out the Numb works out to be a fascinating package that’s dense with ideas, conceptually and sonically. To be sure, it effectively fulfills the role of marketing: I was left with the compulsion to immediately buy the record once I was done with it. But the show equally lives up to its self-description as an experimental joint. The quotidian nature of the podcast is really soothing. There’s nothing quite like it, and it’s just one of the many things that etch Shaking Out the Numb into your brain. …"
