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Jun 18, 2013Though new vocalist William DuVall doesn't have his predecessor's talent for shaping Seattle sludge into molten-dread anthems, founder Jerry Cantrell's expressively torpid guitar steps up to become its own kind of lead voice.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here falls from the same mould [as 1992's Dirt]. [Jul 2013, p.99]
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Jun 6, 2013Nothing sounds new, and yet it has no parallel in the old Alice catalog, because they were just so much weirder than we remember.
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Jun 4, 2013After a while, the lushness of the vocals becomes a little wearing if you’re looking for the cracked, dark heart of yore; a futile task in any case, as that heart stopped beating a long time ago.
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May 28, 2013Spread over a 67-minute album, their second with new voice William DuVall, that grinding insistence first impresses, then just grinds.
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May 28, 2013Alice in Chains are now firmly entrenched in their middle age and settling into what they do best: retaining their signature without pandering and, tellingly, without succumbing to the darkness that otherwise defines them.
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Jun 4, 2013Dinosaurs is a testament to how 90s alt-rock angst can translate meaningfully to middle age.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 64 out of 74
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Mixed: 7 out of 74
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Negative: 3 out of 74
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