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Dynamite Steps

The Twilight Singers

Dynamite Steps

Sixth album from the New Orleans indie rock band formed by The Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Sub Pop
UK Release date
14/02/2011
  1. 10.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    The sound is a return to the Whigs' finest and the mood is whiskey, cigarettes and damnation
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  2. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A stunning piece of work worthy of placing alongside the best of Dulli’s career and, considering the quality of the Afghan Whigs’ canon, that is simply astonishing
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  3. 8.0 |   AU Review

    An essential collection of songs for any Dulli fan or indeed for anyone who likes their melodies to come from a little south of heaven
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  4. 8.0 |   Spin

    His strongest, most widescreen set since the Whigs' mid-'90s heyday
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  5. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Another decadent and varied round of sleaze-rock theatrics from the saviour of misbehaviour
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

    It's the closest he's come to the Whigs' soulful, melodramatic swagger. Print edition only

  7. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    A dark parable
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Arrangements vary — dissonant strings, thrift-store drum machines, wah-wah guitar — but never the sense of menace
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  9. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Lives up to the expectations he’s set, at least musically speaking
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  10. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Another round of anguish and celebration
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  11. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Undoubtedly a real grower of a record
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  12. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    A solid rock album full of musical complexity and lyrical emotiveness
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  13. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Dynamite Steps is just The National with a very different singer: warm pianos, delayed guitars, thundering drums, crescendos whose ripples the listener feels from a mile away
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  14. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    As a whole doesn’t live up to its potential
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  15. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Captivating haunted songs. Print edition only

  16. 6.0 |   State

    Does that rare thing of letting the music speak for itself. File under ‘grower’ and give it a chance to pull you in
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  17. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  18. 6.0 |   NME

    As darkly hypnotic as a rain-lashed midnight motorway
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  19. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    As murky as anything the alt.rock stalwart has ever done, but it’s also a lot less exciting
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