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Brokeback and the Black Rock

Brokeback

Brokeback and the Black Rock

First album in ten years from Tortoise and Eleventh Dream Day bassist Douglas McCombs' side project

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
21/01/2013
US Release date
22/01/2013
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    The slow-burning momentum of Brokeback is in as great a shape here as it was at any time previously
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s utterly self indulgent, but frankly a little self indulgence on a Brokeback album is hardly a new thing
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  3. 6.4 |   Pitchfork

    When you know someone is capable of giving rock a thorough disemboweling, it's hard not to think of opportunities being squandered when presented with something so forthright
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  4. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Desert blues that doesn't just trudge into the horizon, but stops to admire the sunset. Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Menacing, reverb-drenched grooves. Print edition only

  6. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The guitar work handled by Hansen, or McCombs or Elkington or whoever is playing guitar at whichever time, is particularly tasty
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