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Dangerous Dreams
by Moving Units

Moving Units reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 53 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.2 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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This debut album for the Los Angeles-based '80s revivalists will give your favorite indie rock critics another excuse to practice typing "Gang of Four."

LABEL: Palm Pictures
RELEASE DATE: 12 October 2004
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Indie, Rock

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80
Alternative Press
If Ian Curtis had stuck around for Zoloft and Hot Hot Heat, Joy Division's Closer might've sounded a lot like this album. [Dec 2004, p.158]
70
Q Magazine
Punk funk can be a prickly thing, but they never overdo the art-rocking, always placing the emphasis on melody. [Feb 2005, p.101]
60
New Musical Express
It's not so much that [they] sound a bit like The Rapture so much as, occasionally, they seem to be running off Xerox copies of specific Rapture songs. [29 Jan 2005, p.58]
60
Rolling Stone
The album's flat production values eventually dull the rhythm section's choppy bite.
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60
Lost At Sea
Dangerous Dreams is a passable album that never achieves greatness, nor does it fail miserably, rather residing with the mundane.
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58
Pitchfork
Dangerous Dreams is plagued by a pervasive feeling of been there/done that, and the album ultimately sounds like the same two or three tracks on repeat.
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55
Almost Cool
Dangerous Dreams is just such a mixed-bag of goods that it's hard to feel much about it other than a couple of standouts.
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50
All Music Guide
A case of too little, too late, nothing on Moving Units' full-length debut Dangerous Dreams does anything to disprove the feeling that the dance-punk scene is at best overcrowded and at worst approaching rigor mortis any day now.
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40
Uncut
Without DFA tricknology to enliven their mix, they struggle with monotony over the course of an album. [Mar 2005, p.94]
33
Stylus Magazine
If you’re a fan of the genre, don’t bother with Dangerous Dreams unless you’ve absolutely exhausted your current dance records.
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30
PopMatters
Dangerous Dreams is either an homage to an homage or a flimsy extension of a fading movement; regardless, its been-there, done-that mediocrity is ultimately what defines it best.
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30
Splendid
Dangerous Dreams' late arrival was nearly enough to doom it to obscurity, but the disc's lack of new ideas puts the final nail in the coffin.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sean M gave it a10:
anyone that likes good music, is sure to like this album

john b gave it a1:
Boring guitar, bad lyrics and singing. The drums and bass are good but repeat continuously and get boring

Brian P gave it an8:
It tends to go up and down with the whole melodic ballads and disco combination (Anyone, Scars, and Turn Away being the ballads, Scars being the best, Turn Away the worst), a few awkward party songs (Bricks And Motars, KillerLover, Emancipation), but the best are when you can tell their enjoying it. Especially noticable in Birds of Prey, Avalible, Unpersuaded, and Submission. I suggest less sappy songs, less awkward indie-ness, and more of their disco power that they seem to so strongly endorse

Oni gave it a9:
The best like "gang of four" band

Chelsea D gave it a6:
I bought the Moving Units EP earlier this year and fell in love. Sure it sounded like all the other dance punk bands out now, and the lyrics were silly, but I loved it. Besides, most bands full-lengths almost never sound exactly the same as their EP right? Wrong. Listening to this album, I could've been listening to the same 3 songs on repeat. The album is fun to dance to, and if you're not looking for the [new] saviours of rock, you'll probably enjoy it, but don't expect THE CD of 04.

Laura R gave it a 9:
This album is so incredily hot and good. Their misic is so toching and moving. This is by far one of those really good Cd's that u wouldnt press the SKIP button

Mike W gave it a 7:
Good stuff with 4 or 5 outstanding tunes. Will appeal to fans of 80s guitar bands (the fall, wire, gang of 4 etc.) PS- Benjamin W doesn't know what he's talking about)

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