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Gliss Riffer Image
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77

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The fourth full-length studio release for the Baltimore-based electronic artist was self-produced.
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When I Was Done Dying
When I was done dying, my conscience regain So I became a struggle, a nothingness strange I'm a flash made of time, I knew form blasted out And it... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Feb 17, 2015
    91
    On record or in concert, Deacon offers escapism at its finest.
  2. Feb 23, 2015
    80
    Despite their sonic similarities, Deacon's fourth full-length has struck an amicable balance between the hyperactive energies and extravagant compositional ideas prevalent in his earlier work.
  3. Feb 24, 2015
    80
    The album comes across as an adrenaline-filled milestone, filled with whimsical and personal transactions between the past and present.
  4. 75
    This is a record that shrugs off some of the grandiosity of America and instead offers more detail and smaller, more nuanced yet easily interpreted emotions within a relatively familiar context.
  5. Feb 23, 2015
    72
    At his finest, most expansive moments, Deacon renders this dilemma beside the point, but on Gliss Riffer, it's hard to avoid it; the battle between song and arrangement is staged in too small of an arena.
  6. Feb 18, 2015
    70
    This is an often bold and sometimes brilliant offering, even if its heart is more mechanical than you may hope for.
  7. Q Magazine
    Feb 4, 2015
    60
    Too busy and extreme for some tastes, this is still a dizzying proposition. [Mar 2015, p.105]

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  1. Feb 28, 2015
    10
    Dan Deacon is a treasure. Some people in this world need to be taken by the scruff of their neck - and dragged - kicking in screaming -Dan Deacon is a treasure. Some people in this world need to be taken by the scruff of their neck - and dragged - kicking in screaming - towards FUN. Dan Deacon understands that we are all being hardened by society - and he is trying to cure us of our delusions. Dan Deacon is Love. Expand