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Oct 27, 2016He made an album so short and sweet that it’s likely all you’ll want to listen to for a long time.
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UncutSep 8, 2016This is one of his richer projects: a breezy Laurel Canyon love-in. [Oct 2016, p.28]
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Q MagazineSep 8, 2016It feels like a coherent vision, even if it occasionally spills into narco-whimsy. [Oct 2016, p.107]
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Sep 8, 2016The End of Comedy is a delicious surprise.
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Sep 9, 2016Despite the stuffing of unnecessary transition tracks on this album, Drugdealer still makes a clean getaway with The End of Comedy.
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Sep 9, 2016There’s a newfound focus that was missing even on Salvia Plath’s The Bardo Story and Silk Rhodes’ self-titled.
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Sep 8, 2016Many of the songs are free of artifice, boiled down to voice and guitar or left nearly naked to let the emotional impact of the melodies and words cut more deeply.
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Oct 7, 2016The misty, murky sound he strives for, regardless of its influences or genre, works best when a voice or idea makes itself known clearly, and though those moments are few, their inclusion just about justifies the whole project.
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MojoSep 8, 2016Michael Collins' latest sounds like a 21st century Ween--knowing pastiches of '70s Laurel Canyon, '60s jazz soundtracks and more, with guests. [Oct 2016, p.100]