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9.0
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musicOMH
Dan Bejar’s latest is perplexing, intriguing, sometimes infuriating, but rarely less than intoxicating
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9.0
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PopMatters
On LABYRINTHITIS, indie rock’s Destroyer address North American anxiousness while successfully tackling styles hitherto untouched by the project
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8.5
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Pitchfork
Dan Bejar’s marvelously inscrutable songwriting reaches beyond meaning. On his most live-sounding record in years, he finds clarity when language recedes and the music takes over
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8.5
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Beats Per Minute
Labyrinthitis is Bejar at his most villainous, challenging listeners and sneakily insulting those who are manifestations of today’s poorly-constructed diagram of self-worth
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
It’s never boring to watch the progress of someone talented enough that their mastery begins to feel predictable
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8.0
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The Quietus
A dizzyingly contagious collection of songs that benefit from main man Dan Bejar’s scattergun technique of song selection
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8.0
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Under The Radar
As long as Dan Bejar is recording and releasing music, the world is still turning, and vice versa
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8.0
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All Music
Another exciting step forward in Destroyer's never-ending evolution, delivering pleasant confusion and unexpected choices along with the kind of fractured but magical songwriting of which only Bejar is capable
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
If there’s a formula to figuring Destroyer’s Labyrithinitis out, it lies within Dan Bejar’s enigmatic mind
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8.0
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Mojo
Labyrinthitis is another tantalising Destroyer album, one that resists being clutched too tight or loved too hard as it roams its peculiar world. Print edition only
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7.6
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Those who are patient with this record will be rewarded, as that’s nearly always the case with Destroyer albums
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Dan Bejar seems game to throw everything against the proverbial wall and see what sound it makes
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7.0
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Uncut
Less complex and makes a strong move to the dancefloor, without ditching the intrigue. Print edition only
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7.0
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Northern Transmissions
LABYRINTHITIS, while overall accomplished, can seem like it’s holding back unnecessarily, and that a more constant presence from Bejar would make a world of difference
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7.0
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Loud And Quiet
All told, Labyrinthitis is at once freewheeling and tightly wound, packed with grooves but often too anxious to settle into them for more than a minute at a time
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6.0
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The Irish Times
Labyrinthitis is an eclectic album from an artist long past trying to impress anybody but his producer, which pays off here more often than not
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6.0
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The FT
Dan Bejar’s project has been producing records to cult acclaim since 1996
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6.0
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The Observer
The Canadian rockers weave dreamy electronica through an album that buries frequent moments of brilliance beneath a bewildering collage of ideas
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