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- Summary: The acoustic release from the former Sonic Youth guitarist was recorded live in Barcelona.
- Record Label: Primavera Sound
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
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Positive: 2 out of 7
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Mixed: 5 out of 7
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MojoDec 17, 2014A likeable troika of covers--Neil Young's Revolution Blues, The Monkees' You Just May Be The One and Sandy Denny's Bushes And Briars--effectively locate Acoustic Dust on the stylistic spectrograph. [Jan 2015, p.98]
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UncutDec 4, 2014Here he takes four songs from each album and adds a trio of covers to demonstrate their strengths, recasting them as campfire acoustic ditties. This allows some of their lyrical directness to shine through. [Jan 2015, p.76]
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Nov 25, 2014Acoustic Dust is for those who, at a bare minimum, enjoyed Ranaldo’s latest solo efforts and are interested enough to hear what some of them might sound like in a different setting.
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Nov 25, 2014Constant jangle blurs the songs, and a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Revolution Blues’ only emphasises Ranaldo’s newfound likeness to the Canadian in one of his dirgier moods.
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Dec 5, 2014This album is pleasant, but not of similar stature. It is, however, an alternative and illuminating vantage point on his music.
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Nov 25, 2014Acoustic Dust, really, is one for Youth completists; it’s not that Ranaldo doesn’t possess a mastery of the acoustic guitar, but rather that he’s failed to adequately display it on an album that sounds every bit as hastily recorded as it actually was.
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Nov 25, 2014Unfortunately, Acoustic Dust suffers from the age old problem that acoustic albums generally face--lack of variation.