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| Released | June 16, 2023 | |||
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| Length | 40:05 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | ATO | |||
| Producer | David Fridmann | |||
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Emotional Contracts is a 2023 studio album by American indie rock band Deer Tick, released on ATO Records.
According to the review aggregator Metacritic , Emotional Contracts received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 from five critic scores. [3] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 3 out of 5 stars, with critic Fred Thomas writing this album "finds Deer Tick operating at full power and making very few advancements from previous albums, seeing no need to fix what isn't broken with their meat-and-potatoes, blue-collar rock sound". [1] In Glide Magazine , Shawn Donohue writes that this album sounds similar to The Band and Los Lobos without being retro and states that "there is a lot to like" on this release. [2] At The Spill Magazine, the editors chose this as a pick and critic Tony Stuart rated it a 9 out of 10 for being "gloriously retro, but still looking forward" and writing that the "songs on the release all showcase different facets of the band, but the one consistent thread is that this is a very tight, well-rehearsed outfit". [4]
All songs written by John McCauley, except where noted.
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