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Dragonslayer

Sunset Rubdown

Dragonslayer

Canadian Spencer Krug and his band with a third release of lo-fi experimental indie pop/rock

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7.7

Label
Jagjaguwar
UK Release date
15/06/2009
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  1. 10.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It’s a bright new place you’ve never seen before…Whatever all this means, Dragonslayer is an album to get your teeth into. As on the final chorus, it's: ""a bigger kind of kill"". You need this
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Without quite understanding how he does it, Krug’s music makes you, once listened through, want to start over immediately. Call it surprising/delightful, or call it thrilling/glorious. Either way, Dragonslayer‘s pretty great
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  3. 9.0 |   Blurt

    Spencer Krug continues to keep indie rock interesting
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  4. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    Dragonslayer was built for performance, and it sounds good live because the songs sound comfortable and straightforward. Sunset Rubdown are best when they are unfettered by those concerns, when they are fully soaked in their own set of thematic and sonic touchstones and could give a shit if they're understood or not
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  5. 8.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    There comes a point when one can no longer resent a band for attempting to transcend their station. Whether Dragonslayer is as great as any other work is almost irrelevant; it is great and it is grand, and it is all too welcome
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  6. 8.0 |   Spin

    ...more grandiose wordplay and bent indie rock from one of the genre's finest voices
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  7. 8.0 |   State

    Sunset revert to vigorous switches and turns like on closer ‘Dragon’s Lair’ or completely frivolous abandon as on ‘Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh’ that this record truly excels
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  8. 8.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Despite the fact that Dragonslayer is another sprawling epic, Krug has managed to embed some genuine pop hooks into his typically claustrophobic arrangement
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  9. 8.0 |   Clash

    Amid crashing cymbals and his trademark howling yodel,Krug has managed to craft his most accessible Sunset Rubdown recording to date.
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  10. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Opens with psychedelic guitar, then adds xylophone and organ until it all explodes into an anthem where Echo and the Bunnymen meet early-1970s King Crimson
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  11. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    ...when a track gets under your skin, and takes flight then it really does soar
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  13. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    You can call this an album, but it's not the one you'd use to lure anyone into Sunset Rubdown fandom
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