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  • Summary: Gunn Truscinski and Justin Tripp join the New York guitarist, who previously worked with Meg Baird, the Magik Markers, and Kurt Vile, on his fourth solo release.
  • Record Label: Paradise of Bachelors
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk, Guitar Virtuoso
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Magnet
    Jun 26, 2013
    90
    There's no flashiness here, but a slow-burning passion makes this record smoke. [No.99, p.56]
  2. Jul 11, 2013
    90
    What’s particularly exciting about this disc is the possibility that lies in Gunn’s interleaving of timeless songs and allover “time”--few of his influences and even fewer of his peers have searched in this direction.
  3. Jun 26, 2013
    80
    Time Off contains great songs. It's warm, spacious, sophisticated, and elastic.
  4. The Wire
    Dec 10, 2013
    80
    This is resolutely a group effort, and freer and more fluid than, say, the proto-Americana of The Grateful Dead's American Beauty. [Sep 2013, p.52]
  5. Jul 12, 2013
    79
    Time Off’s biggest asset is its ease. There’s a real sense, listening to these tracks, that everything could be a little simpler if we all stopped trying so hard.
  6. Oct 21, 2013
    70
    As pleasant as Gunn is a guitarist, he’s an equally low-key vocalist, his flat delivery and barbiturate baritone unobtrusive and lackadaisical — just kind of there, often, buried slightly beneath Trucinski’s and well below his own gently spiraling guitar in the mix. It’s kind of a shame, actually, as Gunn’s Impressionist vignettes are quite interesting on close listen, showcasing Gunn’s marked maturity as a songwriter.
  7. Jun 26, 2013
    60
    Time Off takes its time getting where it’s going, but deftly reaches its destination.

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