Dents and Shells is the sixth album by singer-songwriter Richard Buckner, released in 2004 by Merge Records.
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| Released | October 12, 2004 | |||
| Studio | Wavelab, Tucson, Arizona Tophat, Austin, Texas Various hotels and hovels | |||
| Length | 34:35 | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
| Producer | Craig Schumacher, John Harvey | |||
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Release
editDents and Shells was released in October 2004. Merge Records celebrated the album's fifteenth anniversary with a re-release on white vinyl in 2019.[1]
Reception
editIn an 8/10 Pitchfork review, Brian Howe wrote, "Since that first album, Buckner has created increasingly more ephemeral, impressionistic gradations of tone and mood. Dents and Shells continues to explore Buckner's shadowy continent of song, a Symbolist mirror-world where bright glints of detail fleetingly flash, then submerge, cloaked in shifting fogs... While strongly rooted in classic folk, Buckner's songs are rendered pristinely strange by their smallness and smeariness-- they're vast, dim topographies described by chords that are barely there, recondite realms of visions and visitations."[2]
In a 3.5 star review comparing Buckner to Elliott Smith and Lou Reed, Darcie Stevens of the Austin Chronicle wrote, "Without elation or regret, Buckner speaks stories, explanations of missteps and wrong turns, contemplations of lost loves and past lives. Dents and Shells is the travelogue of such a road-worn songwriter. A beater of a vehicle with more miles than an odometer can count, Buckner is what he writes."[3]
Gregory McIntosh of AllMusic described Buckner as "grizzly, conceptual, fragmented, brooding, and plaintive."[4]
Track listing
editAll songs written by Richard Buckner.
- A Chance Counsel
- Firsts
- Invitation
- Straight
- Her
- Charmers
- Fuse
- Rafters
- Picture Day
- As the Waves Will Always Roll
Personnel
edit- Richard Buckner – guitar, vocals
- Bukka Allen
- King Coffey – drums
- Eric Conn
- Andrew Duplantis – bass
- Mike Hardwick – pedal steel
- Morales
- Gary Newcomb – pedal steel
- Jacob Shulze – guitar
- Brian Standefer
- Artwork by Andrew DeGraff
References
edit- ^ "Merge Records - Artists, News, Music - Shop Vinyl, Merch, Music and More". Merge Records. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
- ^ Howe, Brian. "Reviews: Richard Buckner - Dents and Shells". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
- ^ Stevens, Darcie (October 15, 2004). "Richard Buckner: Dents and Shells Album Review". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
- ^ McIntosh, Gregory. "Richard Buckner – Dents and Shells: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 31, 2021.