• Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: May 9, 2000
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. :?q:,ails is much better than a collaboration between a former Luscious Jackson keyboardist and a former Breeders bassist has any right to be.... the surprise derives from the convincing Gallic pop-meets-Brazilian tropical-meets-American prairie blend.
  2. Very pretty music that need not be kept in the background.
  3. Although it is never overpowering, Dusty Trails is too well crafted to be reduced to mere background music.
  4. Puncture
    70
    But if the instrumentals are at times boring and over-shy, the heart of the record--and what gives the instrumentals something to bounce off--are the vocal tracks, which highlight both women's talent at melody and whimsical yet honest lyricism. [#47, p.42]
  5. 70
    Wiggs and Trimble do a fantastic job recreating the feel of classic soundtracks of the '60s and '70s... The only shame is that it runs out of steam a little towards the end.
  6. Too often it sounds only half completed...
  7. If few of these tracks could be called great, there aren't any terrible ones either-- the entire thing floats along nicely on a snug bed of cotton.
  8. Call this music "experimental easy-listening" -- neither strident enough to warrant serious commercial attention, nor sufficiently free-form to attract all the independent obsessives.
  9. Minus a couple tracks on the release (including the very Luscious Jackson-esque "Roll The Dice"), this release is more like the female version of Air or Stereolab-lite.

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