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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Release Date: Jul 23, 2013
- Summary: The second full-length release for the music project of Australian Craig Dermody was influenced by his move to New York.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Jul 19, 2013What does make sense is songs that can be related to the world over, not just in Williamsburg, and the songs on Any Port In A Storm fall very much into this category. A brilliant record.
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Jul 18, 2013Wonderfully, it’s somehow nostalgic and current at the same time.
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Jul 19, 2013While Any Port In A Storm is unlikely to make a superstar out of Dermody, it definitely feels like the arrival of a new cult hero.
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UncutJul 18, 2013He combines a fondness for Lou Reed-style New York street theater with anti-folk and '80s out-of-tune jangle to scintillating effect. [Aug 2013, p.76]
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Jul 24, 2013There is a definite whiny, punky recklessness to Any Port In A Storm, a feeling of intentional roughness and rawness mixed with genuine musical chops and strained emotional frankness.
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Jul 22, 2013He sounds small, beaten and subdued beneath the Lemonheads-meets-Diiv slack drawl of the music. The key thing here? Unlike so many of his contemporaries, he also sounds totally believable.
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Jul 18, 2013A stolid lack of poetry combined with Dermody's flat intonation could make Any Port in a Storm hard-going, were it not for his evident, dogged attempt to be Jonathan Richman fronting the Stooges, and a stoic faith in the goodness of life and the value of human endeavour that brims with hope.