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Dagger Beach

John Vanderslice

Dagger Beach

Ninth studio album from the indie rock singer-songwriter funded via Kickstarter

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6.8

Label
Dead Oceans
UK Release date
10/06/2013
US Release date
11/06/2013
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  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    The plethora of unlikely choices adds a depth and tension to the songs, recalling a variety of unique reference points while creating the album's own remarkably strange, remarkably honest statement
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  2. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Dagger Beach manages to be a personal album that doesn't rely strictly on autobiography for its emotional or thematic heft
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  3. 7.7 |   Paste Magazine

    A well-produced and thought-provoking album that sinks in more and more after each listen
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  4. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It is full of small imperfections, often a result of Vanderslice’s proclivity for analog recording, but that’s part of its charm
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  5. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    A marked return to Vanderslice’s impressively meticulous tinkering after the hurried live recording of White Wilderness
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  6. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    For a longtime professional musician who woke up one morning and called off his record deal, Dagger Beach is not as experimental as you'd expect
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  7. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Dagger Beach isn’t the easiest listen – “bewildering” and “bizarre” are perhaps the better descriptions here – but for sheer daring and intrigue, Vanderslice finds fruition
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