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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.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 15
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Mixed: 1 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Far more mysterious and (perhaps not coincidentally) alluring than most Buckner outings, Dents and Shells is a claustrophobic comedown album wrapped in disillusion and sorrow.
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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.
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There's a swagger about Dents and Shells unseen since Since.
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Adding to the pages written by Elliott Smith and Lou Reed, Buckner is the modern age wrapped up in the frustrations and sympathies of a wanderer.
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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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Blender[Dents] is, by Buckner's standards, gentle. [Nov 2004, p.130]
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MojoPicks 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]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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racheloFeb 4, 2005
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JSmokeOct 18, 2004
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JasonPOct 18, 2004
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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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BenjaminBunnyNov 24, 2004
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