Dagger Beach

John Vanderslice - Dagger Beach
Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2013 Ratings: #388 / 1115
User Score
Based on 4 ratings
June 11, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Dead Oceans / Label
Indie Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic

While it's not Vanderslice's most direct work, it's some of his most interesting. 

77
Paste

JV has delivered a well-produced and thought-provoking album that sinks in more and more after each listen.

70
PopMatters

The unpredictability forces the listener to immerse him or herself in the experience, resulting in an album that feels rich and weathered like a piece of driftwood turned into a coffee table.

70
Consequence of Sound

Dagger Beach is unfinished just as the recovery it documents is (or was) a work-in-progress, full of labored obsession and easily sensed isolation — in the “deep dark woods,” alone with one’s fears.

62
Pitchfork

For a longtime professional musician who woke up one morning and called off his record deal, Dagger Beach is not as experimental as you'd expect.

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Track List

  1. Raw Wood
  2. Harlequin Press
  3. Song For Dana Lok
  4. How The West Was Won
  5. Interlude #1
  6. Song For David Berman
  7. Damage Control
  8. Song For The Landlords Of Tiny Telephone
  9. Gaslight
  10. Sleep It Off
  11. Sonogram
  12. North Coast Rep
  13. Interlude #2
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Added on: June 18, 2013