Dead Reckoning - The Builders and the Butchers
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
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  1. PopMatters
    Mar 24, 2011
    90
    Dead Reckoning deserves to be heard by anyone with an interest in the ongoing evolution of rock music, or the darker side of the folk songbook, or just great songs played with power and conviction.
  2. Consequence of Sound
    Mar 2, 2011
    80
    Beyond the elaborate prose, the songs are outstanding and full of an energy that combines careful technique with rousing jams. Dead Reckoning is a unique and wild experience, one that's not to be passed up.
  3. Alternative Press
    Mar 8, 2011
    80
    The contrasts of light/dark, father/son and sinners/saints never sounded so danceable. [Mar 2011, p.92]
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  4. All Music Guide
    Mar 2, 2011
    60
    It's hard not to draw parallels to the Decemberists--fellow Portland residents whose frontman, Colin Meloy, shares a strikingly similar voice with frontman Ryan Sollee--but Dead Reckoning is further proof that the Builders and Butchers are building their own identity.

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