Dangerous Dreams

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Dangerous Dreams
Moving Units Album - Dangerous Dreams.JPG
Studio album by
Moving Units
ReleasedOctober 12, 2004
StudioIndigo Ranch Studios (Malibu, California)
Genre Electronic [1]
Length42:46
Label Palm
Producer
Moving Units chronology
Moving Units EP
(2002)		Dangerous Dreams
(2004)		 Hexes For Exes
(2007)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 53/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Gigwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 6/10 [7]
Pitchfork 5.8/10 [1]
PopMatters 3/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut 4/10 [11]

Dangerous Dreams is the debut studio album by American dance-punk band Moving Units. It was released on October 12, 2004, by Palm Records. [12] It was their second release, after their 2002 Moving Units EP .

Contents

The track "Between Us & Them" was used in Leo Romero's opening part in Foundation's skateboarding video That's Life. The track "Going for Adds" was used in a 2007 commercial for Secret Anti-Perspirant Deodorant.

Critical reception

Dangerous Dreams was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 53 based on 12 reviews. [2]

In a review for AllMusic, critic reviewer Heather Phares wrote: "Dangerous Dreams mix of uptight rhythms, angular guitars, and shouty, faux-Brit vocals doesn't invoke nostalgia for late '70s and early '80s. A case of too little, too late, nothing on Moving Units' full-length debut Dangerous Dreams does anything to disprove the feeling that the dance-punk scene is at best overcrowded and at worst approaching rigor mortis any day now." [3] David Spain of LAS Magazine said: "Dangerous Dreams is a passable album that never achieves greatness, nor does it fail miserably, rather residing with the mundane. Jangled, angular guitars and pungent bass lines meander their way through 12 tracks, laced with British-inspired LA vocals." [13]

Writing for Pitchfork , Sam Ubl explained: "Dangerous Dreams is plagued by a pervasive feeling of been there/done that, and the album ultimately sounds like the same two or three tracks on repeat. Moving Units may not be directly responsible for dance-punk's fustiness, but they can't help but suffer from it." [1]

Track listing

Dangerous Dreams track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Emancipation"3:06
2."Between Us & Them"3:06
3."Available"4:09
4."Going for Adds"3:02
5."Unpersuaded"2:40
6."Anyone"4:00
7."Scars"5:47
8."Submission"4:21
9."Birds of Prey"3:43
10."Bricks & Mortar"3:34
11."Killer/Lover"2:28
12."Turn Away"2:50
Japanese bonus tracks [14]
No.TitleLength
13."Between Us and Them" (Kid606 remix) 
14."Available" (Junior Sanchez remix) 
15."I Am" 
16."Available" (Music video) 

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ubl, Sam (September 12, 2004). "Moving Units: Dangerous Dreams". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Phares, Heather. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  4. ↑ If Ian Curtis had stuck around for Zoloft and Hot Hot Heat, Joy Division's Closer might've sounded a lot like this album. [Dec 2004, p.158]
  5. ↑ Buddle, tessa. "DIY Magazine Review". DIY. Archived from the original on November 11, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  6. ↑ Earl, Davina. "Gigwise Review". Gigwise . Archived from the original on June 28, 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  7. ↑ It's not so much that [they] sound a bit like The Rapture so much as, occasionally, they seem to be running off Xerox copies of specific Rapture songs. [29 Jan 2005, p.58]
  8. ↑ Lundy, Zeth (March 2, 2005). "PopMatters Review". PopMatters . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  9. ↑ Punk funk can be a prickly thing, but they never overdo the art-rocking, always placing the emphasis on melody. [Feb 2005, p.101]
  10. ↑ Walters, Barry (November 25, 2004). "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  11. ↑ Without DFA tricknology to enliven their mix, they struggle with monotony over the course of an album. [Mar 2005, p.94]
  12. ↑ Corcoran, Monica (December 19, 2004). "The Moving Units: Vinyl Christmas" – via NYTimes.com.
  13. ↑ Spain, David. "LAS Magazine Review". LAS Magazine. Archived from the original on January 29, 2005. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Dangerous Dream - Moving Units (Bonus)" (in Japanese). Hmv.co.jp. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Dangerous Dreams - Moving Units - Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved April 18, 2021.
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