Richard Swift - Dressed Up for the Letdown

Reviews of Dressed Up for the Letdown

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7.5 by Pitchfork Media At a time when heart-on-sleeve indie rock is enjoying a lengthy peak, Richard Swift fits in with the legion of angst-ridden arty man-boys while simultaneously setting himself apart. Swift's music ... Read more
n/a by www.austinchronicle.com Richard SwiftDressed Up for the Letdown (Secretly Canadian) Before Richard Swift was unleashed on a world of generic rock and electro dabbledry, there was no such thing as timeless vaudevillian angst... Read more
n/a by NME The hit of last year’s South By Southwest signing scrum, with his third album, bubble-permed wonderchild Richard Swift easily justified all the A&R hype. This multi-instrumentalist, producer and f... Read more
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n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com Call me old-fashioned, but sometimes I just want to hear a great song with a lovely verse, catchy chorus, and, if possible, some thoughtful instrumentation. In this day and age, that may be a tall ord... Read more
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n/a by arts.guardian.co.uk Thankfully, another character sidles between the layers of these songs, and even shuffles into the limelight elsewhere - someone more shady and strange, who loves circus rhythms and giddy trumpet riff... Read more