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Jun 1, 2020It’s a perfectly serviceable album, as one might expect, given the pedigree of those involved. But it’s hard to imagine it being met with anything but bemusement at the Grand Ole Opry.
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Jun 5, 2020Neither country nor Americana, Peck is a hip outsider who is now rubbing shoulders with the anodyne likes of Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Blanco Brown, and the Jonas Brothers, a group that makes for a passable enough half hour of entertainment but collectively don't add up to a cohesive or surprising country-pop aesthetic from Diplo.
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Rolling StoneJun 3, 2020Playful spirit is in short supply on a record where club beats, acoustic strumming, and parched guitar lines usually get siphoned into unobtrusively earnest background pop. [Jun 2020, p.71]
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Jun 1, 2020It’s nice enough. That’s the problem with Snake Oil, though: the highest bar the music reaches is being decent, and the loftiest ambition of these songs is to be simply tolerated, packed in amongst other unremarkable tunes on an Apple Music playlist called ‘Tuesday Vibes’ or something similar.
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Jun 1, 2020You don’t listen to a Diplo album for the songwriting, and Snake Oil suffocates in treacly kitsch.
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May 28, 2020Diplo's second album might be a cheeky bid to stake out a spot in Nashville, but the end result is largely a bummer, a collection of dourly self-conscious "chill" accessorized with the kind of cheap cowboy hat that gets left behind on the way to the festival parking lot.
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Jun 8, 2020The result is still just a big, slick, debatably-decent pop record.
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May 28, 2020This isn’t a country album at all; rather it’s an excuse for Diplo to wear some razzle-dazzle Nudie Cohn-style suits and fancy cowboy hats.
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May 28, 2020By failing to commit fully to straight pop craftsmanship or to genre-bending experimentation, the project feels lyrically bland and sonically uninspired.
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May 28, 2020Part of the problem is that Diplo has never done subtlety. He’s in his element when blasting vuvuzelas onstage, working with cliff-edge drops and acres of bass frequencies. Out on the open plains of songwriting he often feels lost, resulting in some startling lyrical simplicity.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 13 out of 22
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May 29, 2020
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Jun 17, 2020Worthies (8/12):
- Heartless
- Lonely
- Dance with Me
- Do Si Do
- On Mine
- Real Life Stuff
- Hometown
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Jun 9, 2020