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Badlands

Dirty Beaches

Badlands

Debut album of lo-fi pop from Montreal-based Taiwanese musician Alex Zhang Hungtai

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Zoo Music
UK Release date
29/03/2011
US Release date
29/03/2011
  1. 9.1 |   A.V. Club

    Every inch of Badlands is coated in sheets of echo and shadow
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  2. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    A refreshing take on the well-worn tropes of lo-fi-- raunchy, old-fashioned, and pompadoured, there's nothing else that sounds like this right now
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  3. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Badlands is the result of an artist who won’t fool himself into thinking that modernism will bring about some brand spanking idea
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  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A noir-pop melodrama
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  5. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Impossible to ignore or file away
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  6. 8.0 |   State

    It is not original, but it is a breath of fresh air in an age where everything sounds so polished
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  7. 7.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    At only eight tracks, Badlands is a short album, but it packs plenty of ideas into its brevity
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  8. 7.2 |   Bowlegs

    Music that stays with you, leaving you bewildered and enthralled in equal measures
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  9. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    He seems not as interested in doing something new, per se, as he is in meticulously forging antique pop and rock artifacts
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  10. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    While there's plenty here to admire, Badlands comes nowhere close to seating itself in the company of its influences
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