Trouble in Dreams (2008) Album Review

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Music critics combined give Trouble in Dreams a score of 3.3375 out of 4

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Entertainment Weekly

In another time and place, Destroyer frontman-songwriter Dan Bejar might have been a poet scraping by on NEH grants. Instead, he's set his literate aphorisms to brooding rock music and become an indie darling. Read more about Trouble in Dreams on Entertainment Weekly

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Movie critics combined give Trouble in Dreams a score of 4.00 out of 4

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Dusted Magazine

Trouble in Dreams is nearly identical to Destroyer’s Rubies. Sure, the notes and words aren’t the same, at least not entirely, but the tone, the demeanor, the feel of the album most definitely is.
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Movie critics combined give Trouble in Dreams a score of 3.20 out of 4

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Slant Magazine

About halfway through "My Favorite Year," the gentle anthem at the emotional heart of Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Bejar's predictably strong ninth album as Destroyer, he abruptly shifts gears,
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Movie critics combined give Trouble in Dreams a score of 2.40 out of 4

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Almost Cool

I can't even quite peg the exact moment in time that Dan Bejar lost me. It was probably somewhere between the release of Your Blues and Destroyer's Rubies and possibly around the time of Twin Cinema by The New Pornographers. And it's not as if
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