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- Summary: The fourth solo release for the Dirty Three guitarist features guest appearances from Peggy Frew, Caroline Kennedy-McCracken, Oliver Mann, Kishore Ryan, Ian Wadley, and Jeff Wegener.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
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Nov 19, 2013Here he successfully creates a convergence of harmonious and dissonant sounds, tensions and spaces, which reflect the subtleties in the complex emotions that construct such a powerful force.
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Nov 19, 2013Don’t Tell The Driver spends the whole of its hour-long running time in what feels like a slow melt, with melodies sliding down its surface alluringly.
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Nov 19, 2013Don’t Tell the Driver is far too gorgeously personal, too hushed, too subtle, too free-rangingly ruminative to ever play out on a public stage. Instead its chaotic swirls, its muted flares of brass, its clackety storms and ebbs of drumming seem destined to play out in private theaters.
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Nov 19, 2013Turner is clearly a sensitive, thoughtful and probably pleasant man whose musicianship is way less pretentious than is being advertised.
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Nov 19, 2013Turner’s unpredictable guitar work here is of a piece with the other elements in these compositions, but the ruffled imperfection of it all is quite beautiful in its difficulty.
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Nov 19, 2013As always, the emotions lie in the spaces between the pellucid notes.
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Dec 16, 2013It's apparent that a lot of work has gone into paring these jams down into a focused and always interesting collection.
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