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Dances In Dreams Of The Known And Unknown

The Skull Defekts

Dances In Dreams Of The Known And Unknown

Third album of experimental noise rock from the Swedish quintet, featuring Lungfish member Daniel Higgs

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
07/04/2014
US Release date
08/04/2014
  1. 8.5 |   The 405

    A thrill from start to finish
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  2. 8.5 |   Paste Magazine

    Not many bands in recent memory have been able to combine noise and otherworldly sonics with the sweat and hot breath of punk rock. The Skull Defekts have mastered it, boiled it down and resurrected it
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  3. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    A brutally effective and strangely hypnotic experience, with many of the songs seeming to be much shorter than they actually are, the listener sucked into some timeless zone where pre-historical gods still roam the earth
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This band are masters of their craft, and Dances in Dreams of the Known and Unknown is simply more evidence to attest to that assertion
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    What could have been a phenomenally messy piece of work edges towards just being phenomenal
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    The various elements of grueling, confused rock nihilism and clear-headed spirituality result in some new kind of cosmic punk
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  7. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    Granted, the Skull Defekts make fine music on their own, but they sound more alluring and entrancing when their wagon is hitched to Higgs
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  8. 6.0 |   Earbuddy

    The narrative and vocals kill this record
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  9. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    This is a record so ridiculously lacking in self-awareness, so caught up in the twisted logic of its own peculiar bombast, you simply have to submit
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