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The Black Dirt Sessions

Deer Tick

The Black Dirt Sessions

Third album from Providence, Rhode Island indie folk quartet

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5.9

Label
Fargo
UK Release date
05/07/2010
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  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    The album as a whole comes off a little wilder than Flag Day, as McCauley and his bandmates dress up the humble and hummable with some darker shadings
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    This variously recalls REM, the woozy gait of Neil Young, and Lennon's brutal confessionals
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  3. 8.0 |   The Independent

    The Black Dirt Sessions finds US indie combo Deer Tick mining a rich vein of Americana in which life is presumed to be a losing game, though not necessarily unworthy of celebration
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  4. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    They can make you punch the air or pin you to your seat. A giant leap forward
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  5. 7.0 |   Spin

    On their third album, this Providence, Rhode Island band unravels dark, dark Americana blues, while McCauley plumbs new depths of raw emotion and utter despair
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  6. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    But for its occasional flourishes, The Black Dirt Sessions suffers the tiresome consistency of a record aware of its own slight irrelevance; always good, but never great
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  7. 5.6 |   Pitchfork

    There are far too many aimless laments and meager ramblers that fail to register at all, let alone stick
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  8. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Deer Tick's John McCauley has a wobbly voice and a wobblier sense of self
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  9. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    The Black Dirt Sessions is exactly what it wants to be: album rock for waking up cotton-mouthed in the back of a pick-up truck
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  10. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    What the Rhode Islanders do they do well, but it might be nice to hear them do something different, badly
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  11. 2.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    One can’t help feeling that frontman John McCauley must be as bored of his own voice as we are
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