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Jun 20, 2011It's another dose of what Dunn seems to be becoming a modern master of, while carefully trying out new textures.
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Jun 20, 2011Ways of Meaning is drone music with a light touch and the gravity turned off.
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Jun 20, 2011There can never be too much of this kind of music--so there's a built-in safety in Ways of Meaning for Dunn as an artist and for its listeners. It's automatically successful if you take it up on its own terms, but I get the feeling Dunn is inching his way toward something that elicits a more nuanced response.
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Jun 20, 2011That hint of edge, of literal weight, adds to the collage of tones on a piece like "Canyon Meadows" or acts as an undertow on the flow of "New Pures," helping to transform that feeling of contemplation while not actually crushing it in any sense.