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Q MagazineAug 20, 2013A follow-up that's both more consistent and more predictable. [Sep 2013, p.104]
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Jul 25, 2013It’s an album of spare and precise beauty, and when it was over I really wanted to see the film.
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Jul 24, 2013This is an unrelentingly difficult record, with all semblances of pop music and even melody eschewed for a Hound of the Baskervilles trudge through a gothic swamp.
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Jul 15, 2013It’s uncertain music from an uncertain man, an artifact that will continue to influence growing pains from the many Lynchian dreamers.
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Jul 12, 2013Lynch showcases a grim neighbourhood that seems electrically oppressed somehow, synthesised echoes murmuring like residual radiation.
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Aug 1, 2013The Big Dream is but a pretty stone that withers the moment it is touched, lifted for further inspection.
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UncutJul 31, 2013What's here feels a bit decaffeinated, downbeat Moby-ish electronica over which Lynch speaks or sings in a shaky blues croon. [Sep 2013, p.91]
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Jul 23, 2013With a few more such thoughtfully crafted moments The Big Dream might have been an entirely adequate sidenote in Lynch’s ever-growing oeuvre. As it stands, it is barely that.
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Jul 19, 2013The Big Dream is vaguely interesting, but not very interesting.
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Jul 12, 2013Lynch may be devoting much of his time and passion to his new career as a musician, but The Big Dream still has a thin, larky feel, briefly amusing, consistently strange, but rarely resonant.
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Jul 15, 2013The mood darkens further here--Lynch's croon is mired deeper in dirgey, junkyard blues--and it's harder work too, which rather militates against the carefully crafted unease.
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Jul 12, 2013It's a sound with all flesh stripped off the bone, but Lynch himself sounds like an intellectual playing bogus trailer-trash.
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