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9.1
73295
9.1 |
Consequence Of Sound
No matter the upper-register nuances, Deacon’s percussive lines are solid enough for even the most easily distracted listeners to grasp
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8.0
73296
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Deacon continues to eschew traditional pop songcraft for a singular tidal approach based on the ebb-and-flow amalgamation of dissonant elements
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8.0
73297
8.0 |
NOW
Energy flows smoothly from frantic sugar-rush highs to subtly beautiful, ambient polyrhythm experiments
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8.0
73299
8.0 |
The List
If you don’t find something of Dan Deacon’s in here to love, then truly it was never meant to be
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8.0
73301
8.0 |
The Music
Constantly moving between the lush, the experimental and the poppy, and always drenched in a layer of gorgeous electronic fuzz
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8.0
73330
8.0 |
The Guardian
Coerces elements of pop and madcap electronica into a convincing mix
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8.0
73335
8.0 |
Evening Standard
His songs are complex, endlessly layered and hyperactive, delighting in wrong-footing the listener
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8.0
73405
8.0 |
musicOMH
It certainly takes a tremendous amount of skill to weave together all these myriad flights of musical fancy into a coherent work. It’s a challenge that Dan Deacon is easily up to
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8.0
73414
8.0 |
DIY
Each track bubbles away like sodium in a swimming pool and burns as bright as magnesium on a Bunsen burner
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8.0
73420
8.0 |
Earbuddy
Technology and feelings, real and virtual, fuse together in Deacon’s cacophonous musical blendings; the robots are learning to love
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8.0
73435
8.0 |
Under The Radar
The fact that Dan Deacon is still creating records with such intensity is impressive in itself. But to be able to deliver such a sonically beguiling affair as takes something else
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8.0
73476
8.0 |
All Music
May not be the next step many expected after America, but it leaves no doubt he remains a force to be reckoned with in indie electronic, creating smart and satisfying work with a stubbornly individual perspective
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8.0
73503
8.0 |
Exclaim
Sees Deacon pay greater attention his lyrical content, while still using his voice as a textural instrument through pitch-shifting and heavy use of a vocoder
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8.0
73527
8.0 |
The Quietus
He's a man focused on upholding the importance of innovation while simultaneously creating a community
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7.5
73577
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Where vocal parts have often been little more than bricks in the wall of Deacon’s constructions, here they become focal points
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7.5
73456
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Offers some of the purest pop pleasures Deacon has done, yet they’re fused to an album that comes across as deeply anxious and unsettled
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7.5
73417
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Even after multiple listens, the record promises new details to discover and surprising mysteries to taunt the listener
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7.2
73410
7.2 |
Pitchfork
More than a return-to-form album, Gliss Riffer simply feels like an exploration of a more pared-back, intuitive way of working
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7.0
73418
7.0 |
The 405
Gliss Riffer is the most characteristically 'Dan Deacon' record that Dan Deacon has yet released
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7.0
73430
7.0 |
PopMatters
By far his most successful (and, incidentally, most accessible) full-length, but it’s just shy of being a masterpiece
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7.0
73300
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This is an often bold and sometimes brilliant offering, even if its heart is more mechanical than you may hope for
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7.0
73298
7.0 |
NME
Even though ‘Gliss Riffer’ comes with no added extras it still creaks under the weight of its experiments
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7.0
73568
7.0 |
Crack
Gliss Riffer is a very good album; a natural progression in the Deacon canon, best enjoyed during lucid dreaming or while snorkelling
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7.0
73888
7.0 |
Beardfood
Dan's not as experimental as he once was; he may have found his voice
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6.0
73723
6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
The album’s most memorable and affecting songs are its catchiest and least concerned with crescendos
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6.0
73489
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
His latest features his own zonked singing on tracks like the loopy, Tom Petty-referencing elegy "Feel the Lightning" and the head-spinning backwoods goof "When I Was Done Dying"
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6.0
73497
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
It’s by no means Deacon’s most accessible work, then, but long-time fans will likely be thrilled
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6.0
73331
6.0 |
The Irish Times
An album of buzzy pop which squelches, squawks and squeals in great infectious waves
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6.0
73336
6.0 |
The FT
Songs are aggressively streamlined with fast computerised beats and the rest of the instrumentation is a blur
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