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9.4
93415
9.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Dirty Projectors is back with a reshaped identity, serving up experimental/artistic indie-pop while retaining its penchant for eclecticism and unpredictability
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9.0
93468
9.0 |
The 405
This is a record for when you're wondering just what went wrong, just where you lost one another
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9.0
93545
9.0 |
Gig Soup
The breakup between Longstreth and Coffman marks “Dirty Projectors” as more than just a breakup album—it is the type of album that will be embalmed in history for representing heartbreak itself
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9.0
93565
9.0 |
musicOMH
Dirty Projectors may be a breakup record, and one with its fair share of petty sniping but, cathartic and redemptive, it’s one worth getting to know
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8.5
93648
8.5 |
Spectrum Culture
There is something laudable in the emotional truth revealed here
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8.5
93800
8.5 |
Beardfood
Sure we miss Amber’s voice, but David must miss her much more. Heartbreak sucks; good music helps us cope
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8.3
93486
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Heartbreak can be overwhelming, inspiring, and exhausting, and with Dirty Projectors, Longstreth has birthed an album that strives to not only reflect that, but to mimic it, too
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8.0
93497
8.0 |
Evening Standard
It could have been a lonesome lament, but Longstreth’s creative rebirth has resulted in some audacious tunes and a genre-defying album
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8.0
93482
8.0 |
All Music
Dirty Projectors demonstrates that musically and lyrically, love and its absence have taught him a thing or two
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8.0
93571
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Remarkably, the humor and the heartbreak coexist beautifully
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8.0
93551
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The record works not because it feels cynical, but because beneath the obvious lyrical headlines, you can sense Longstreth’s genuine enthusiasm for the new forms he’s exploring so vigorously
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8.0
93563
8.0 |
The FT
An ex-lover expresses how he feels on a path through funk, chamber-pop, soul, rock and electronic music
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8.0
93818
8.0 |
Mixmag
Their most honest and affecting yet.
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8.0
93693
8.0 |
NOW
An ex-boyfriend’s account of a public separation isn't what the world needs in 2017, but fortunately this is not a typical breakup album
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8.0
93418
8.0 |
The Music
A breakup album, rooted in personal and artistic rebirth
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8.0
93462
8.0 |
Under The Radar
This is musical therapy at its best: smart, confident, and yes, experimental
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8.0
93371
8.0 |
Clash
On the surface, the record bears all the trademarks of a Dirty Projectors release: impossible rhythms and constantly shifting meters, clapping percussion and hocketing. Look a little deeper, however, and it’s unlike anything we’ve heard from the band before
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8.0
93381
8.0 |
The Quietus
Drives a stake into the ground as to what guitar bands could deliver in 2017 if they would only open their ears and minds up a little
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8.0
93409
8.0 |
The Guardian
This is work of emotional and musical maturity: sad, complex and sometimes profound
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8.0
93338
8.0 |
The Observer
Dirty Projectors takes the breakup album – as sonically redefined by Beyoncé – and runs with it
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8.0
93340
8.0 |
Uncut
If art is love, and love is art, then this hyper-stylised, characteristically idiosyncratic break-up album, in the end makes a perfect kind of sense
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8.0
93341
8.0 |
Q
It is, as always, complicated, but addictively, intriguingly so. Print edition only
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8.0
93361
8.0 |
The Skinny
A moving and interesting new project
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7.8
93452
7.8 |
Pitchfork
In what is ostensibly a solo record with a few high-profile collaborations, Dave Longstreth masterfully peels away layer after layer of heartbreak across a strange, dizzying pop album
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7.5
93337
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The record isn’t all downbeat wallowing and, as you might expect, takes some surprising turns in the labyrinth of Longstreth’s influences
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7.5
93339
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
As a solo project, Dirty Projectors works well. As significant of a shift as this album is from past Dirty Projectors’ records, the detailed production and arranging work shows Longstreth put all of himself into making it
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7.4
93355
7.4 |
AU Review
A lot of the aural experience is reliant on dissonant, jumpy tones that sound like (and probably are) created by speeding up, slowing down, and rewinding various tracks and recording the playback
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7.0
93394
7.0 |
Exclaim
Voyeuristic as it is, Dirty Projectors truly does feel like a record he had to make, not to mention one that's well worth our attention
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6.1
93619
6.1 |
Earbuddy
The production is miles ahead of Dave Longstreth’s past work
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6.0
93692
6.0 |
Onlike
Even for a break-up record, it’s overthought to the point, it’s somewhat off-putting
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6.0
93603
6.0 |
PopMatters
The album deserves credit for its inventive, adventurous spirit, but even these can come across as self-inflating. A fascinating and occasionally compelling work, the album is nonetheless often too insular to be affecting
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6.0
93363
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Each track resembles an elegantly complex logic puzzle crisply engineered to be as alluring as it is beguiling
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5.8
93610
5.8 |
Resident Advisor
Right from the start of the new album, you realize something’s gone horribly wrong
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5.7
93582
5.7 |
Paste Magazine
Art lasts. Love fades. Not as punchy as “You can go your own way” but it’ll work
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5.0
93360
5.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Perhaps now that the messy business of getting back into the game is over with, he can rediscover that sacred, arcane language that made his music seem so alien yet familiar to begin with
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4.0
93342
4.0 |
Mojo
Art rock meets R&B producing an over-egged new hybrid. Print edition only
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4.0
93432
4.0 |
The Independent
What is it with musicians and their need to air their laundry in public?
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