- Record Label: Capitol
- Release Date: Jul 13, 2010
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Dark Night mostly fits together as an accomplished piece of downbeat concept-rock. The mood can get--to quote Chesnutt's song--"grim," but the artfulness shines through.
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Unfortunately, the ambitious concept proves too unwieldy to work as a consistent album.
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It's a project with too many authors and not enough personality, too many ideas and not enough meaning.
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Q MagazineFor all the celebrity firepower, however, Dark Night Of The Soul never quite adds up to more than a handful of great moments. [Aug 2009, p.111]
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Here were two artists, anxious and passionate, who knew how to talk to each other. That connection is missing from much of the rest of this collection, an exercise in Rolodex-flexing and loose oversight.
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The WireThe feeling of opiated depressive inertia that weighs it down is compounded by the sugary viscosity of Danger Mouse;s production. Yet it's these slower songs, shaped by Linkous's Country-inflected enervation and Danger Mouse's attention to sonic detail, that work best, while the more up tempo, rockier tracks come off as perfunctory. [Jul 2010, p.53]
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Dark Night Of The Soul will probably be remembered more for the stunt with the blank CD-Rs than for the music intended to be burnt onto them.
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Under The RadarMost of the songs play like invertebrate retreads of Flaming Lips and Grandaddy-styled pomp. [Summer 2009, p.65]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 36
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Mixed: 4 out of 36
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Negative: 1 out of 36
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Jan 3, 2014
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Dec 7, 2011WOW WOW WOW WOW very awesome songs, nice work Danger Mouse and friends
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Dec 27, 2010I could have potentially written about this album last yearâ