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Paupers Field

Dylan LeBlanc

Paupers Field

Debut album of Americana from the 20-year-old Louisiana singer-songwriter, likened to Neil Young and Ryan Adams

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
23/08/2010
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Paupers Field belies the age of its creator ... Somehow the talented songwriter has gifted the world with a stunning, somber debut
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  2. 9.0 |   God Is In The TV

    LeBlanc draws you in with his exquisite narrative, makes it feel real, urges you to keep on going until you reach the end
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  3. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    The playing is restrained, the voice suitably weather-worn, the overall effect that of a rebirth of the country genre
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The biographical colouring would be meaningless if he wasn’t blessed with a beautiful, smoky voice, which melts wistfully into the pedal steel of sometime Burrito Brother Wayne Bridge
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  6. 7.0 |   Clash

    Throughout Dylan LeBlanc is rarely less than charming. A superb stylist, ‘Paupers Field’ is a deeply evocative record, even if the time and place is not his own.
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  7. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    It would be nice if he went out and got himself some backstory and some emotional experience before he pens his next album – not only for the sake of his listeners, but also for the poor critics who have to review it
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  8. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    Unlike so many masters of gloom and doom, though, LeBlanc doesn't lay it on so thick as to be claustrophobic
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  9. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    A sometimes excellent, never less than listenable album but it seems like a starting point rather than an initial triumph
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  10. 6.0 |   BBC

    A consummate session musician, he's got the moves down pat... but where is the soul?
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  11. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Paupers Field meanders at times, but has moments of real teary-eyed reflection
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