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May 20, 2013Drifters/Love Is the Devil spans nearly every sound in Dirty Beaches' musical spectrum to make another strongly evocative album in Hungtai's body of work.
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May 23, 2013These records, steeped in reference and atmosphere, draw on memory but, being so textured and tactile, they bring the focus back to the present moment.
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Jun 19, 2013As tough sledding as Drifters/Love Is the Devil can be both psychically and musically, there are enough moments of enlightenment that make you more than willing to follow Hungtai wherever he goes.
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MojoJun 18, 2013The first half of this double album follow-up picks up Badlands' wayward trail.... As the set wears on, Hungati's soundtrack-composer instincts take over. [Jul 2013, p.84]
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May 20, 2013There are magic moments, but the overall effect might make you drift off rather than have you on the edge of your seat.
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May 16, 2013On the whole, the double-album is an impressive and engaging aural expedition.
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Jun 5, 2013This is the album Hungtai needed to record, but not necessarily the record his burgeoning audience wanted to experience.
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May 17, 2013This minimal format emphasizes Hungtai's talent for setting a skin-crawling mood.
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May 16, 2013From a listening perspective Drifters is an engaging, and often intriguing concoction. Slightly less appetising is the drawn out and mostly instrumental ambience of Love is the Devil.
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May 16, 2013Drifters/Love Is The Devil isn’t always an unqualified success, but more often than not it displays Dirty Beaches as a project increasingly adept at the scattershot of styles, imprinted with Hungtai’s own recognisable mark.
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May 21, 2013The gloomy and beautiful tracks on Love is the Devil may be pointing a way forward for Dirty Beaches, they may have been conceived as a spiritual complement to Drifters, or they may just be a temporary detour; whatever their intent though, their presence is a welcome addition to the Dirty Beaches catalog.
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May 23, 2013Hungtai’s ideas swing rapidly from beautiful to chaotic to completely atonal.
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May 28, 2013Individually these would be two good albums. But as a complimentary pair they become much more.
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May 22, 2013For those with autumn coursing through their veins, they’d do well to assuage their summer by keeping Dirty Beaches’ Drifters/Love is The Devil coursing through their headphones.
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May 16, 2013Slowly unfolding ambient pieces still display a gritty, second-hand quality, but that fits the vibe of the record: never-ending travel, where the only constant is loneliness.
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Jun 6, 2013Though it’s tough to get a sense of what exactly it is that’s causing all of this suffering, the details don’t seem so important in the end, as Drifters / Love Is the Devil is the sound of pure isolation and dread wrapped in one bleary, beautiful package.
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MagnetJun 18, 2013Love Is The Devil draws more obviously from film music, creating a moving, mostly instrumental platter loaded with evocative drones and coarse textures. [No.99, p.55]
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May 17, 2013It’s a demanding, damn good and rewarding listen, one that squeezes your heart and head through shaking fingers.
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Jun 14, 2013He’s fulfilled every promise made by Badlands and then some, and despite whatever depths of pain made such an eruption of shattered awesome possible, he’s managed not just one of the best albums of the year, but one of the most genuinely moving, as well.