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Universal acclaim- based on 66 Ratings
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Positive: 58 out of 66
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Mixed: 0 out of 66
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Negative: 8 out of 66
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SimonRJul 3, 2009
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PasAug 30, 2009Perfect!
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StianSSep 12, 2009This album is amazing and it's getting even better for each listening, even after two months!
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FredRJun 23, 2009Best album I've heard in 2009 so far.
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MatthewHJul 10, 2009It's a bigger departure from past Sunset records than the critics have let on, but's it's just as great. Pay close attention to the lead guitar playing, because it might be the best thing about the record.
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JeffreyE.Jul 21, 2009My favorite album so far this year....Have listened to this over 25 times!
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sharpmathAug 24, 2009
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RoryC.Sep 28, 2009Best album I've heard this year. On par with Wolf Parade's (One of Krug's other bands) last album, but more accessible and hopeful of finding beauty in the world. Hopefully the album that will give Sunset Rubdown the recognition they deserve.
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KurtCDec 6, 2009Exceptional album. This one really surprised me and continues to give me goose bumps while I'll rock out to it. One of the only albums I own with a perfect rating of 100. A must-by and my #1 album of 2009; it also placed at #4 for the decade behind My Morning Jacket, Wilco, and Fleet Foxes to give you some reference for what I'm in to.
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BlueMeanieOct 3, 2009
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JohnWJun 23, 2009Outstanding album from start to finish.
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JoseCJun 23, 2009The best album that I have heard this year.
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KymPJun 27, 2009Sensational. Krug delivers another unique landscape.
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K.L.GJun 29, 2009Fantastic, beautiful, grandiose rock - with a brain, a tortured, poetic heart and a fantasic propulsive rhythm!
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GWJun 29, 2009A great band which normally spins in some other ethereal orbit, deciding to swoop in like a blazing comet into a closer, more accessible orbit..all the better so more of the world can see their unique brand of spectacular, complex, off-kilter progressive pop.
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MS.Aug 13, 2009'Bowiesque' without the pretentiousness of previous albums. There are some solid tracks on here.
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GeorgeM.Aug 16, 2009This is an album with so many layers. You can listen it when lying on bed on the dark or play it loud enjoying the power of chorus and guitars. And after a fwe listens, it becomes even better. In resume, 10.
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LucasW.Aug 17, 2009Oh my god amazing! Song writing at its peak!
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ESAug 26, 2009This album through and through is the best of 2009. You go on ahead (trumpet trumpet II) is undoubtedly my favorite song. At first i liked silver moons the most, but after a couple listens i realized just how epic it is. On par with Shut Up I am Dreaming.
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MatthewaJun 23, 2009
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NachoCJun 28, 2009Aside from Grizzly Bear's album, Sunset Rubdown's Dragonslayer is by far one of the best this year. Nothing short of magical, literally, magical.
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Awards & Rankings
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As carefully crafted as it is, this is the group's most accessible record yet. And it's a damn fine one at that.
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It’s another astounding album from a great band and one that we should get much, much more music from for many years to come.
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Whatever all this means, Dragonslayer is an album to get your teeth into. As on the final chorus, it's: "a bigger kind of kill". You need this.