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Under The RadarMcCauley'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]
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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.
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[It's] an album that feels far too blandly somber, ignoring the feel-good clamor that can make Southern-rock revisionism so much fun.
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Dirt has more mood pieces than songs, and the lyrics get just plain goofy.
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There's a lot of either-you-like-it-or-you-don't on Deer Tick's latest, The Black Dirt Sessions.