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- Summary: The remastered and reissued release of the band's 2002 disc includes seven unreleased tracks.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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Jul 29, 2013There’s simply not a wasted second on the record; all fourteen songs are simple and direct, immediately recorded in inglorious mono with nothing--save the cheap Casio autochord presets on ‘Blues in Dallas’--but voice, guitar and the album’s secret third instrument--the insistent hum of an increasingly-broken boombox.... The main draw of this reissue for hardened Mountain Goats fans, an obsessive breed at the best of times, are Darnielle’s new liner notes and a selection of seven bonus tracks from the same era.
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MagnetAug 16, 2013Seven bonus cuts from the same project make it more than worth picking up even for those who've worn out the original. [No. 101, p.58]
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Jul 29, 2013The gems on All Hail West Texas capture the pain and beauty of humans’ entanglements with each other.... These days it’s the loneliness of the album, and just the idea of the space that is West Texas, a vast and largely unpopulated sprawl, that hits home.
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Under The RadarAug 28, 2013With seven bonus tracks and an 1800-word essay included in physical copies, this is a rare treat. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.132]
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Jul 29, 2013This remastered version includes seven bonus tracks. One is an alternate version of “Jenny”; the other six are additional songs recorded for this album and unreleased until now. Thematically and musically they fit in well.
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Aug 19, 2013The reissue's bonus material, culled from the original cassettes Darnielle recorded to, fails to outshine the album's original tracks, but does offer a few highlights.
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Aug 2, 2013The chief virtue is the immediacy that courses through tracks like “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Fall of the Star High School Running Back”.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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May 21, 2019
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