by
Dustin Wong
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Feb 21, 2012
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Feb 21, 2012Wong is at the apex of his songwriting. This is not to be missed.
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Mar 5, 2012This is musical execution at its most lavish.
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UncutFeb 22, 2012Wong works up from trickling sounds as seemingly innocuous as mid-morning TV music to a rumbling, looped ferocity. [Mar 2012, p.107]
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Feb 22, 2012While the intricacies of Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads could be exhausting to a casual listener, those with attentive ears will be enamored by the myriad sonic nuances present in the album.
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Feb 21, 2012While it doesn't sound at all the same, fans of Robert Fripp's Frippertronics (Let the Power Fall) or Henry Kaiser's guitar-with-delay work (It's a Wonderful Life, Where Endless Meets Disappearing) should really enjoy this.
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Feb 23, 2012None of the songs are simple, and they mostly all build to surprising and surprisingly weird heights.
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Apr 24, 2012There are plenty of sticky hooks and hummable melodies to be found, and their existence inside the delicate, shifting tapestries are what makes Dreams Say so endearing.
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Mar 1, 2012Dreams Say succeeds on a number of levels, one of which involves bringing the delightfully spastic guitar work of Ponytail to an audience that shuns too much dissonance.
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Feb 21, 2012I don't suppose this is an album for the ages, but as tasty trifles go, you could do far worse.
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Feb 21, 2012The tracks have separate names but they're really just one whole impressive piece, about as far from Sheeran as you can get.
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The WireApr 18, 2012Wong knows that to build up this depth of texture he has to restrict the harmonic content, but endless repetition of pentatonic scales played very fast by 100 Fender Tele-wielding Wong doppelgangers loses it lustre as a listening experience some considerable time before the 16th track reaches its conclusion. [Feb 2012, p.68]
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MojoApr 10, 2012This is undeniably beautiful in its minimalist repetitions but could do with a little more dirt in the weave. [Apr 2012, p.95]
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Under The RadarMar 22, 2012It's an uneven affair, but at its best the album mines a hazy sonic netherworld akin to the works of ... Oval and Tortoise. [Mar 2012, p.88]
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Feb 21, 2012This is by and large a record that moves at its own pace, and a calm one at that.