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Feb 17, 2015On record or in concert, Deacon offers escapism at its finest.
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MagnetMar 12, 2015Deacon possesses the rare ability to tweak the conventions of his chosen mode of musical expression while expanding them into a distinctive style signature. [No. 118, p.55]
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Feb 25, 2015Gliss Riffer is a magnifying glass held to that opening in one hand and an opium pill twirling between his index and ring fingers in the other, egging on the impending lucid dream that's been in the works for years. He's only now offering an audacious embrace.
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Feb 24, 2015The album comes across as an adrenaline-filled milestone, filled with whimsical and personal transactions between the past and present.
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Feb 24, 2015Gliss Riffer may not be the next step many expected after America, but it leaves no doubt he remains a force to be reckoned with in indie electronic, creating smart and satisfying work with a stubbornly individual perspective.
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Feb 23, 2015Each cut is massaged with the global sense of rhythm that first reared its head on 2009's excellent Bromst, producing a rich tapestry of arrangements that finds Deacon extending his reach further still.
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Feb 23, 2015Despite their sonic similarities, Deacon's fourth full-length has struck an amicable balance between the hyperactive energies and extravagant compositional ideas prevalent in his earlier work.
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Feb 20, 2015While ‘Take it to the Max’ sounds like Battles and Gold Panda had, well... a battle. These elements only enhance rather than inhibit, proving Deacon’s ability to find the best ingredients for his eclectic recipe.
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Feb 20, 2015What really makes Gliss Riffer stand out in Dan Deacon’s discography though is the feeling that you’re being allowed in to his own personal, private world.
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Feb 19, 2015His fourth album, Gliss Riffer, continues that singular journey [the edge of pop and experimentation] and coerces elements of pop and madcap electronica into a convincing mix.
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Feb 19, 2015Energy flows smoothly from frantic sugar-rush highs to subtly beautiful, ambient polyrhythm experiments, and this gradual winding down effectively showcases the full spectrum of his vision. It shouldn't work, but it does.
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Feb 17, 2015What results is a swirling accumulation of sound, forming into manic campfire roundelays emphasizing themes of community and recovery, the scrappy spectacle of beauty shaped from shiftless sonic waste.
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MojoFeb 13, 2015An effervescent, ebullient record. [Mar 2014, p.97]
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Feb 26, 2015This is a record that shrugs off some of the grandiosity of America and instead offers more detail and smaller, more nuanced yet easily interpreted emotions within a relatively familiar context.
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Feb 24, 2015Gliss Riffer offers some of the purest pop pleasures Deacon has done, yet they’re fused to an album that comes across as deeply anxious and unsettled, a mixture that makes for a fractious listening experience.
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Feb 23, 2015Gliss Riffer offers just enough hooky material to entice you and make you dance, but you still need to work hard to gain even an inkling of understanding into Deacon’s vision.
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Feb 23, 2015At his finest, most expansive moments, Deacon renders this dilemma beside the point, but on Gliss Riffer, it's hard to avoid it; the battle between song and arrangement is staged in too small of an arena.
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Feb 24, 2015Gliss Riffer is by far his most successful (and, incidentally, most accessible) full-length, but it’s just shy of being a masterpiece. His constant need to mask his deeper thoughts and intentions prevents the album from emitting the warmth we know it is capable of.
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Feb 23, 2015For better or worse, Gliss Riffer is the most characteristically 'Dan Deacon' record that Dan Deacon has yet released.
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Feb 18, 2015This is an often bold and sometimes brilliant offering, even if its heart is more mechanical than you may hope for.
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Feb 17, 2015Even though Gliss Riffer comes with no added extras it still creaks under the weight of its experiments.
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Alternative PressFeb 4, 2015As the songs lengthen the transitions grow more subtle, their epic weight intensifies. [Mar 2015, p.92]
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The WireFeb 4, 2015Although the rest of the songs vary in sugar content and heart rate, the most potent dose of hyper-colour twee may be "Learning To Relax," which sounds like Yacht remixing The Polyphonic Spree for an iPhone advertisement aimed at Junior High students. [Feb 2015, p.44]
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UncutFeb 4, 2015Glass Riffer dials back the bold orchestrations of 2012's America in favour of a rapturous electronic pop with Deacon's voice pushed upfront. [Mar 2015, p.75]
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Feb 28, 2015