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Jul 9, 2012While a few of Total Dust's later tracks tend to blend together a bit, the album is never less than pretty and sincere, and it's always nice to hear artists like Borcherdt prove they can do several styles of music equally well.
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Jul 16, 2012The result is the raw and crunchy folk record Total Dust.
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Aug 10, 2012Total Dust is a very nice record with a good melancholic mood.
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Jul 9, 2012Dusted may not be their day jobs, but both men have shown a clear ease and commitment to the act from note one.
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Jul 9, 2012Brian Borcherdt has made rough, beautiful songs out of broken bits of things, haunting atmospheres from the gritty transience of dust, and that's something worth doing.
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Jul 9, 2012The result is murky, hazy, psychedelic and endlessly replayable.
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Jul 10, 2012Total Dust undeniably taps into the same raw-nerved emotion that defined Borcherdt's previous solo efforts, wrapping its cutting sentiments in a grotty guitar fuzz that sounds like it was scraped off the heads on Lou Barlow's old four-track.
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Under The RadarAug 22, 2012Dusted is an engaging and ultimately successful new direction. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.116]