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Dawes: We're All Gonna Die
by Doug Collette
With the benefit of extended hindsight, Dawes' We're All Gonna Die was certainly the most confounding new rock release of 2016, if not the most disappointing. To the credit of the Los Angeles band, the album (or at least its title) did presage the weighty ennui afflicting the culture by the end of the year. But that borderline cynical mindset was couched in a marked change from Dawes' previous folk-rock orientation, overseen by Jonathan Wilson and categorized, at least for ...
read moreDawes: Stories Don't End
by Doug Collette
Wrapped in funereal black graphics inside and out, the music of Dawes' third studio album radiates an ambivalence that undermines its ambition.Choosing to record Stories Don't End on the east coast and enlisting the production assistance of Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Kings of Leon, among others), Dawes has taken great pains to address erroneous preconceptions as the standard-bearers of a nouveau California rock milieu. At the same time, the group has gone to some lengths to ...
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