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  • Summary: The Nashville-born and New York-based folk singer releases his debut album recorded by Kyle Spence of Harvey Milk.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
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  1. Jan 3, 2012
    80
    These songs may not scan perfectly or make much objective sense, but they feel very real and relevant and uncalculated.
  2. Dec 1, 2011
    75
    These songs are fiercely internal, which also makes them remarkably hard to shake--here, Roberts is singing about the no-place of everyplace, the desolation we all know.
  3. Nov 21, 2011
    74
    Luke Roberts's debut can dig up a well of such intimate, homegrown sounds and songs.
  4. Nov 21, 2011
    60
    His music is unobtrusive without being boring, polite without being gutless.
  5. Mojo
    Jan 11, 2012
    60
    It's a promising - if a little lackadaisical - debut. [Dec. 2011 p. 97]
  6. Nov 21, 2011
    60
    While sometimes left wanting for redeeming bells and whistles, where Big Bells & Dime Songs sporadically strikes gold is its distillation of tumbleweed folk Americana.
  7. Under The Radar
    Nov 21, 2011
    40
    As it stands, it's pleasant music to fall asleep to, but offers little to keep you awake. [Oct 2011, p.108]

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