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Drifters/Love Is the Devil
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  • Summary: The two years Canadian artists Alex Zhang Hungtai spent on the road is the concept behind his double album as Dirty Beaches.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Beats Per Minute
    Jun 14, 2013
    86
    He’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.
  2. Exclaim
    May 17, 2013
    80
    This minimal format emphasizes Hungtai's talent for setting a skin-crawling mood.
  3. No Ripcord
    Jun 6, 2013
    80
    Though 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.
  4. The Line of Best Fit
    May 16, 2013
    75
    Drifters/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.
  5. PopMatters
    Jun 19, 2013
    70
    As 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.
  6. Consequence
    May 23, 2013
    70
    Hungtai’s ideas swing rapidly from beautiful to chaotic to completely atonal.
  7. Under The Radar
    Jun 5, 2013
    55
    This is the album Hungtai needed to record, but not necessarily the record his burgeoning audience wanted to experience.

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  1. comed3y
    Jul 7, 2013
    10
    BPM said it the best, such an eruption of shattered awesome. This albums filled with pain yet it shouts through it like its having a bigBPM said it the best, such an eruption of shattered awesome. This albums filled with pain yet it shouts through it like its having a big drunk, drug filled party, rarely giving into the pain and when it does, beautifuly. One of the best of the year.… Collapse