Gliss Riffer
by Dan Deacon
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Feb 24, 2015
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
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  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Mar 4, 2015
    60
    The morbid motivation behind it all looms like that skull, never far from the festivities, even if Gliss Riffer doesn’t always reproduce its glow.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Feb 24, 2015
    60
    His latest features his own zonked singing on tracks like the loopy, Tom Petty-referencing elegy "Feel the Lightning" and the head-spinning backwoods goof "When I Was Done Dying."
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 4, 2015
    60
    Too busy and extreme for some tastes, this is still a dizzying proposition. [Mar 2015, p.105]
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User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 2 out of 21
  1. vitalemrecords
    Feb 28, 2015
    10
    Dan Deacon is a treasure. Some people in this world need to be taken by the scruff of their neck - and dragged - kicking in screaming -Dan Deacon is a treasure. Some people in this world need to be taken by the scruff of their neck - and dragged - kicking in screaming - towards FUN. Dan Deacon understands that we are all being hardened by society - and he is trying to cure us of our delusions. Dan Deacon is Love.… Full Review »
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