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Given the musically versatile, vaunted band behind it, Big Whiskey, for all its stylistic reach and array of textures, is frequently beset with a curious bout of blandness.
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MojoAlthough every other verse here is filled by paradiddles, polyrhythms and wilfully complex time signatures, DMB's ear for a tune at least provides us with some fine choruses. [Jul 2009, p.94]
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Q MagazineThis record will quicken the pulse of no one, but then chin-stroking does require a certain musical mellowness. [Jul 2009, p.127]
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Produced by Rob Cavallo, Big Whiskey is a step back toward the more polished sound DMB explored on 2001's divisive "Everyday"--that is to say, a step away from the 2005's return-to-form "Stand Up."
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As a lyricist, Matthews prospers when he’s being boyish and mischievous, but his earnest bits are mostly unbearable, and Big Whiskey, in keeping with much of the band’s recent output, plays like one big scented candle.
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Steady as she goes on AOR eighth outing.
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UncutToo often they sound like Sting fronting Counting Crows. [Jul 2009, p.93]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 50 out of 63
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Mixed: 9 out of 63
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Negative: 4 out of 63
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Jan 11, 2014
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Oct 12, 2010
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Sep 7, 2010