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- Summary: The latest album from Dan Deacon is his first on Domino and was inspired by his travels across America and as an American in Europe.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Electronic
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True Thrush | |
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Beast of my brain, everybody's the same With the beast's control, it will never turn gold, and that's just life Don't touch the flame, of the burning... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 36
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Mixed: 1 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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Aug 28, 2012America ultimately embraces splendor and nobility, even as it acknowledges personal and social anxiety.
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MagnetAug 23, 2012America is both a progression and a departure for Deacon: an album rife with danceable party music, but also a deeply political gesture. [No.90, p.56]
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Aug 28, 2012America is an album in two halves, once again separate but together, a side of individual tracks and a four-song suite that inform each other even as they generate tension by nature of their disparity.
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MojoAug 17, 2012While traces of Deacon's former giddiness punctuate America, there's an ambitiously hefty, almost John Doe Passos-like engagement with the ambiguities of the Land of the Free. [Sep 2012, p.88]
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Aug 27, 2012The Dan Deacon machine returns from Bromst-land (relatively) leaner, (relatively) focused and (absolutely) teeming with sound.
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Aug 23, 2012Using hardly any words at all, Deacon conveys the freedom, triumph and catharsis that can come from a journey across ever-changing yet familiar terrain.
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Aug 28, 2012The most enjoyable bits here are the least grandiose.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Aug 28, 2012
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