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Orca

Gus Dapperton

Orca

Second album from the Warwick, New York singer-songwriter Brendan Patrick Rice

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
Gus Dapperton
UK Release date
18/09/2020
US Release date
18/09/2020
  1. 8.0 |   NME

    By dropping his guard, Dapperton has reinvented his usual slacker-pop to accommodate his raw emotions
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  2. 7.0 |   DIY

    An artist stepping up musically, while also finding strength in his vulnerability
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  3. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Orca sees Gus Dapperton tackle strong themes of mental health struggles and finding acceptance in his most transparent and honest piece of work yet
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  4. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    These restless songs flit between lapses of focused meditation and fretful apprehension
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  5. 5.9 |   Spectrum Culture

    This is a pleasant, breezy album, perhaps not intentionally
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  6. 5.3 |   Pitchfork

    The Brooklyn songwriter’s self-produced second LP is an introduction to the psyche beneath the quirky bowl cut. But its self-imposed pop formulas and strained symbolism reveal little
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  7. 5.0 |   All Music

    While Orca is bleaker and more depressing than Dapperton's previous work, it's emotionally hollow, with moments of both joy and despair only suggesting the outline of feelings they can't quite communicate
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