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Sep 23, 2016On what could very well be the band’s breakthrough record, they continue to trade on the values that have won them so many fans up until now--deeply unfashionable concepts such as patience, simplicity and reliability.
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Oct 7, 2016Dusk goes nowhere, basically. It ambles, seems happy to hide behind the sofa, but is charming, feels totally complete and when it ends you feel the urge to hit repeat. Again.
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Oct 4, 2016Sure, Ultimate Painting know their influences, but what shines through most of all is the sheer diversity and inventiveness of their songwriting.
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Sep 30, 2016That contradiction between the wistful and the prickly was one of the really fascinating elements of Green Lanes, and it’s gone now, but weirdly Dusk is none the less for lacking it. In fact, this third outing outdoes the second in an unambiguously soft indie rock embrace.
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Sep 27, 2016Ultimate Painting may not reach the commercial heights of either guy's main band, but it is fully the equal and in some ways more interesting. Certainly if you're a fan of Veronica Falls or Mazes, you'll want to check this out right away.
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MojoSep 27, 2016Warm, understated third LP. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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UncutSep 23, 2016It's touches like these--the suggestiveness of the pauses, the silences, the miniature worlds between the painterly notes Cooper and Hoare play--that makes Dusk, for all its influences and its rear-view mirror vision of classicist pop, such a seductive album. [Oct 2016, p.30]
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Oct 6, 2016Once again, a thoroughly pleasant aural experience; an enjoyable slice of dreampop that subtly introduces and shifts between a variety of influences to keep the listener interested.
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Oct 17, 2016Some tweaks are almost imperceptible, but when administered at the right place and the right time, Dusk shows an incidental dynamism that Ultimate Painting haven’t shown before.
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Sep 29, 2016While it’s a formula they work to, it never sounds formulaic.
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Sep 23, 2016Minor refinements are enough for a group so fully formed from the start, and Dusk is Ultimate Painting’s fullest record yet.