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76

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5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The six-track mini-release from the British singer-songwriter features a guest appearance from Kathryn Williams.
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  1. Jan 16, 2014
    80
    Time of Dust is bleaker than his past work, marrying a dark heart with epic hooks and choruses like a darker Elbow.
  2. Jan 16, 2014
    80
    A gorgeous noirish set of cinematic songs with a bittersweet emotional core.
  3. Jan 16, 2014
    80
    Ed’s voice is at its finest--effortless and addictive. It makes you want to listen to this gem all over again.
  4. 80
    Balanced by bitter barbs at modern snivellers and shysters in Time of Dust itself, the result is a compact but concentrated dose of poison.
  5. Jan 16, 2014
    60
    It doesn’t quite hang together in the way that an official Harcourt album does, acting instead as a kind of taster for things to come. Yet as aperitifs go, it’s pretty satisfying.
  6. Mojo
    Jan 23, 2014
    60
    [Harcourt whets] our curiosity with this six-tracker which goes to the brink but never quite falls over the edge. [Feb 2014, p.96]

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