by
Dustin Wong
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Release Date: Feb 21, 2012
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Feb 21, 2012Wong is at the apex of his songwriting. This is not to be missed.
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Mar 5, 2012This is musical execution at its most lavish.
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UncutFeb 22, 2012Wong works up from trickling sounds as seemingly innocuous as mid-morning TV music to a rumbling, looped ferocity. [Mar 2012, p.107]
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Feb 22, 2012While the intricacies of Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads could be exhausting to a casual listener, those with attentive ears will be enamored by the myriad sonic nuances present in the album.
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Feb 21, 2012While it doesn't sound at all the same, fans of Robert Fripp's Frippertronics (Let the Power Fall) or Henry Kaiser's guitar-with-delay work (It's a Wonderful Life, Where Endless Meets Disappearing) should really enjoy this.
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Feb 23, 2012None of the songs are simple, and they mostly all build to surprising and surprisingly weird heights.
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Apr 24, 2012There are plenty of sticky hooks and hummable melodies to be found, and their existence inside the delicate, shifting tapestries are what makes Dreams Say so endearing.
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Mar 1, 2012Dreams Say succeeds on a number of levels, one of which involves bringing the delightfully spastic guitar work of Ponytail to an audience that shuns too much dissonance.
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Feb 21, 2012I don't suppose this is an album for the ages, but as tasty trifles go, you could do far worse.
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Feb 21, 2012The tracks have separate names but they're really just one whole impressive piece, about as far from Sheeran as you can get.