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Jul 29, 2021With catchy melodies and always engaging writing, the record brings Dacus’ early era to a sort of summation, a realization of what’s been coming, yet without any sense of her artistic momentum slowing down.
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Jul 29, 2021This is a memory album that is touched with love but almost entirely free of cheap nostalgia. It comes from a long way away, using everything Dacus has learned since to capture her experiences clearly, with art but without too much ornamentation.
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Jul 19, 2021Home Video is a more noticeably more mellow affair. Musically, it can be a little thin. Her strength as a lyricist is unwavering, even on her sparest, most nondescript ballads (Thumbs). But, as perkier indie-rock tunes like First Time and Brando prove, her careful arpeggios can also shine when she lets a little looser.
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Jul 1, 2021Home Video is a vibrant, unsparing celebration of life's many chapters and what it means to be human: flaws, doubts and all.
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Jul 1, 2021Home Video is undeniably a Lucy Dacus album; one that’s a reflection of not only the rise of her star but of the ever-growing liberation that comes with emotional vulnerability.
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Jun 28, 2021Home Video is also Dacus’ most immediate, accessible album to date. While the general tone is quite downbeat, but she can switch to crunchy power-pop on tracks like Hot & Heavy and First Time.
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Jun 25, 2021Dacus’ lyricism is pushed farther on Home Video than ever before, with each song contributing its own characters and memories and developing a work tight and succinct enough to be called a concept album. ... Even more importantly, she has proven once again that she is amongst her generation’s strongest lyricists.
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Jun 25, 2021With Dacus' warm vocals and melodies leading the way throughout, Home Video is an engrossing set steeped in life lessons and nostalgia.
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Jun 25, 2021Powerful. ... Each song is filled with vividly observed memories and vignettes.
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Jun 24, 2021Home Video is a bold statement, a powerful post-adolescent text in its own right.
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Jun 24, 2021At every moment ‘Home Video’ presents a vivid snapshot into an upbringing that fundamentally defines Lucy Dacus’ adulthood. In each tale she finds both loss and hope, a musical representation of the intricate jigsaw of life.
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Jun 24, 2021Dacus’s warm vocals are as rich and full as ever, between upbeat album singles like “Hot & Heavy” and yearning, piano-driven ballads (“Please Stay”).
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Jun 23, 2021A powerful album, confirming Home Video as another exquisite offering from Lucy Dacus.
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Jun 23, 2021‘Please Stay’ is wistful and pretty, but largely forgettable, and the surging indie-rock of ‘First Time’ doesn’t quite hold up against the rest of the record. But for the most part, Dacus proves that looking back at your past might make you cringe, but there is beauty and value in those faltering, gawky days.
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Jun 23, 2021Here, her wise brand of rock music blooms into something even more palpable, relatable and beautifully messy.
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Jun 23, 2021Home Video will appeal to Dacus’ existing fan base, but also holds the potential to bring hordes of new fans that will find themselves in the middle of a story not exactly their own.
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Jun 22, 2021Home Video is her greatest work yet — a cohesive and poignant collection of tales from her teenage years in Richmond, Virginia. These stories are woven like a quilt, with several dark patches reminiscent of her hero Bruce Springsteen’s The River.
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Jun 21, 2021Ultimately, it’s less the nuances of Dacus’s writing than her willingness to expose herself and her past so freely—even the most difficult parts—that make the strongest impression on Home Video.
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MojoJun 21, 2021Dacus finds the pages of her diary she just can't shake, turning them into songs that are destined to stay with you, too. [Jul 2021, p.78]
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Jun 21, 2021Home Video is Dacus at her most autobiographical and lyrically direct. [Jul 2021, p.28]
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Jun 21, 2021Home Video is intimate, occasionally discomfiting, and, most of all, brave – the sound of an artist choosing to be at her most vulnerable, in front of a bigger following than she’s ever had before.
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Jun 21, 2021Dacus has long been heralded for her ability as a raconteur, and Home Video further cements this reputation. It is a deeply personal album filled with raw vignettes of young adulthood that claw at our collective consciousness.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 41
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Mixed: 1 out of 41
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Negative: 0 out of 41
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Jul 29, 2022
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