• Record Label: Partisan
  • Release Date: Jun 8, 2010
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Under The Radar
    60
    McCauley's lyrics sometimes get a little lazy, but at best spits fire and brimstone. The drawback here is that the songs don't hold together well. [Spring 2010, p.75]
  2. It's too bad that the majority of The Black Dirt Sessions is so familiar, as the band dutifully strides through the same well-worn territory, perhaps even less palatable in their stubborn sameness.
  3. [It's] an album that feels far too blandly somber, ignoring the feel-good clamor that can make Southern-rock revisionism so much fun.
  4. Dirt has more mood pieces than songs, and the lyrics get just plain goofy.
  5. There's a lot of either-you-like-it-or-you-don't on Deer Tick's latest, The Black Dirt Sessions.
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Dec 3, 2010
    9
    This is one of the best records of 2010. Great voice, great songs, great band. In my opinion, it has been too underrated by the critics.This is one of the best records of 2010. Great voice, great songs, great band. In my opinion, it has been too underrated by the critics. Waiting forward them to come to Spain...

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