Toward the Low Sun - Dirty Three
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  • Summary: The trio from Australia releases its first album of instrumental rock since 2005's Cinder.
  • Record Label: Drag City
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Instrumental Rock
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  1. Positive: 26 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    Mar 12, 2012
    90
    A reverence-inspiring return.
  2. Mojo
    Mar 23, 2012
    80
    The [7-year] hiatus hasn't impaired the band's vivid country-gothic grandeur one iota. [Apr 2012, p. 90]
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  3. The Wire
    Apr 18, 2012
    80
    The recipe still works. [Mar 2012, p.52]
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  4. No Ripcord
    Jun 29, 2012
    60
    It's good, but it's not essential.

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  1. AlexxTrusc
    6
    Australian trio surprises the audience with their "Toward The Low Sun" and first on the list - very experimental & loud "Furnace Skies", then little slowing down in "Sometimes I Forget You've Gone" - where they exhibited lots of piano parts. "Moon On The Land" - is a great folk song, a quiet ballad with violin stirring parties - as well as "Ashen Snow".… Expand

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