Dents And Shells - Richard Buckner
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77 out of 100

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9.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The sixth album for the indie-folk singer-songwriter was recorded in Texas and Arizona with a cast of up to eight backing musicians.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Lost At Sea
    80
    Dents and Shells is human in the best and truest kind of way: it is the work of a man, appreciative of feeling and progress, warts and all.
  2. Pitchfork
    80
    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.
  3. Junkmedia
    80
    Dents and Shells matches the intensity and concision of Impasse, while adding an organic, spontaneous feel to the proceedings.
  4. Mojo
    60
    Picks up where 2002's Impasse left off, with Buckner at large in a dusty, wide-screen landscape of brushed guitars, weeping pedal steel and decorous strings. [Dec 2004, p.114]
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
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  1. rachelo
    10
    Simple 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.… Expand
  2. JasonP
    10
    Fantastic. As consistant and all-consuming as Devotion + Doubt. The man continues to evolve as a songwriter, yet plays his strengths with a winning hand.… Expand
  3. Nick
    8
    Another solid release from RB - a grower - I found Impasse more immediate, but there are a couple of real gems here.
  4. BenjaminBunny
    7
    Richard 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.… Expand

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