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Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings
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JSmokeOct 18, 2004This cd is an amazing work....subtle flourishes of steel guitar and piano, percussive sweeps, amazing lyrics, and of course, that voice. One of the year's best.
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racheloFeb 4, 2005Simple rolling melodies humm with a hungry discomfort. Insults and invitations, humbly passive spite, an aggressivly condesending contribution to the very walls he laments about. A beautiful bad dream that is slow to wake.
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BenjaminBunnyNov 24, 2004Richard Buckner will probably never make another album as moving as "Devotion + Doubt," but he'll continue to make records that sort of come close. Place this one somewhere just below "Impasse" and just above "Since" in terms of overall quality.
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NickOct 30, 2004Another solid release from RB - a grower - I found Impasse more immediate, but there are a couple of real gems here.
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JasonPOct 18, 2004Fantastic. As consistant and all-consuming as Devotion + Doubt. The man continues to evolve as a songwriter, yet plays his strengths with a winning hand.
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There's a swagger about Dents and Shells unseen since Since.
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SpinThe songs remain the same: clear-eyed musings on breakups-as-existential-crises. [Dec 2004, p.124]
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Dents and Shells is Buckner in top form, using a broad brush to manifest his enigmatic poetics, hallucinatory atmospheres, and melodies that appear and evaporate like breath exhaled onto cold glass.