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The band's tendency to start a song quiet, loose, and lovely and then slowly sweat it into a faster, intensified crescendo is familiar by now, but somehow remains vividly evocative.
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Alternative PressShimmeringly beautiful and richly unpredictable. [Mar 2003, p.92]
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Few bands... make slowing down sound this risky.
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Creaking, elegant, feverish.
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BlenderA raw, passionate record. [#14, p.135]
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The most eclectic and endearing Dirty Three album in quite some time.
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A darkly shimmering, intensely brooding and exquisitely melancholy trip.
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May very well be Dirty Three's greatest accomplishment to date.
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MagnetMore of the same, yes, but riding what sounds like an autumnal rebirth. [#58, p.86]
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MojoThrilling. [May 2003, p.106]
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Though all the elements that make their music great are still present, never do they crystallize and come together quite like they have in the past.
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This may not quite live up to 'Ocean Songs', but it still stands up on its own.
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Q MagazineDrummer Jim White and guitarist Mick Turner lend understated support throughout, but it's Ellis's eloquent bow that captivates. [Mar 2003, p.103]
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She Has No Strings Apollo is, if anything, a portrait of one of the most passionate bands you'll ever hear, at a time when they've fine-tuned their improvisational telepathy.
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If the arrangements were given as much attention as the astonishing, rich, in-the-same-room production: 9.1
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The WireDownhome and earthy, cut through with sensitivity and intelligence. [#229, p.58]
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UncutMood-wise it's their bleakest yet. [Mar 2003, p.112]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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AlexMJan 7, 2005