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- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for the Canadian punk band continues the story of David Eliade (the character in the song "David Comes to Life") and features contributions from Jennifer Castle, J Mascis, Owen Pallett, and Lido Pimienta.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 20 out of 23
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Mixed: 3 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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Oct 5, 2018The 18 eclectic tracks hang together because of a gleeful joie de vivre, and are the best songs of the band’s career.
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Oct 4, 2018Fucked Up have created a masterpiece that pushes boundaries, takes risks and delivers huge rewards.
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Nov 8, 2018Dose Your Dreams creates a vividly realised world I love to visit. Once I press play, I feel compelled to see it through to the end. Other listeners will tackle it in chunks.
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UncutSep 28, 2018There's variety like never before: bludgeoning tech-punk, disco beats and Screamadelica-era Primal Scream eruptions. That it exists is exhausting; that it works is extraordinary. [Nov 2018, p.29]
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Kerrang!Oct 8, 2018Vocal contributions from a slew of guests keep things unpredictable on a set which often feels like a multi-genre playlist. ... Time spent getting your head around this craziness is time well spent. [6 Oct 2018, p.55]
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Oct 5, 2018It’s powerfully confronting, unashamedly angry, unrelenting and it’s long. Yet throughout, the band’s mastery guides the album. The ebb and flow, often squeezed into the running time of a single track, is as beautiful as it is disarming.
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Oct 1, 2018The wide variation in music and the uneven results (all of it, perhaps, evidence of the record’s conceptual ambitions and smarts) prevent Dose Your Dreams from being a uniformly pleasurable record. But, man, is it full of ideas and aesthetic vitality.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Oct 14, 2018
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Dec 8, 2018
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