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Jun 5, 2013The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is up there with the best Alice in Chains albums, with each track a conquest of structure and composition.
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Kerrang!Jun 12, 2013Though it might fail to inspire at first, it will do eventually. A grower, then. But a genuine one. [25 May 2013, p.52]
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May 28, 2013What The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here leaves one with is a feeling that Alice in Chains have returned to the top of their game, confident and back on firm ground.
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Jun 3, 2013At its core, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is a rock solid record that sees Alice In Chains settling in the confines of their own style.
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Jun 24, 2013They may never recapture their ‘Dirt’-era majesty, but AiC’s second act is turning out very nicely indeed.
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May 31, 2013The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here revels in being just a record.
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May 28, 2013A brooding, groovy, muscular album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is a more mature and thoughtful application of Alice In Chains' undeniably powerful aesthetic.
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May 28, 2013With a running time of nearly 70 minutes for just 12 songs, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here can be overwhelming; the arrangements of several songs are amorphous, and tunes such as “Phantom Limb” and “Hung On A Hook” could benefit from an editor. Despite these small quibbles, the album is solid.
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Jun 18, 2013Though new vocalist William DuVall doesn't have his predecessor's talent for shaping Seattle sludge into molten-dread anthems, founder Jerry Cantrell's expressively torpid guitar steps up to become its own kind of lead voice.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here falls from the same mould [as 1992's Dirt]. [Jul 2013, p.99]
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Jun 6, 2013Nothing sounds new, and yet it has no parallel in the old Alice catalog, because they were just so much weirder than we remember.
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Jun 4, 2013After a while, the lushness of the vocals becomes a little wearing if you’re looking for the cracked, dark heart of yore; a futile task in any case, as that heart stopped beating a long time ago.
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May 28, 2013Spread over a 67-minute album, their second with new voice William DuVall, that grinding insistence first impresses, then just grinds.
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May 28, 2013Alice in Chains are now firmly entrenched in their middle age and settling into what they do best: retaining their signature without pandering and, tellingly, without succumbing to the darkness that otherwise defines them.
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Jun 4, 2013Dinosaurs is a testament to how 90s alt-rock angst can translate meaningfully to middle age.
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Positive: 64 out of 74
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Mixed: 7 out of 74
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Negative: 3 out of 74
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