All Hell

Daughn Gibson | Format: MP3 Music

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 26, 2012
• Label: White Denim
• Copyright: 2012 White Denim
• Total Length: 30:59
• Genres:
  • Country
  • Dance & DJ
• ASIN: B007MXN6YK
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,356 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic. July 28, 2012

By Honey Badger

Format:MP3 Music

I work in music and listen to a lot of junk and mediocre. Every once in a while an album comes along that I fall in love with immediately. This is one of them. Atmospheric. Beautiful. As if Ray Lamontagne, Johnny Cash, Bon Iver, Morrissey and Chris Isaak had a love child and Lucinda Williams carried the baby.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive debut July 3, 2012

By Kenneth

Format:MP3 Music

How do you like your singer songwriters to sound in 2012? If the answers eerie and indubitably forlorn, be sure to check this out! All Hell the debut album from the previous Stoner Metal enigma Daughn Gibson is a veritable smorgasbord of electronica fused noirish country appropriations that is just begging to be heard by the vagabonds and sadsacks it so eloquently describes. Think Dirty beaches Alex zhang Hungtai on his 2011; intriugingly warped, lynchian, opus Badlands or Bill callahan fooling around with electronic music and you have a good idea as to how cool this sounds.

At the risk of sounding reductive the 10 tracks on here all attempt to screw with country music in some way, whether it's supplying an insistent 4/4 beat on "Looking back on 99" or creepy slint like guitars on album standout "Tiffany Lou" or how's about the ominous synthesizers on the title track. This open minded approach to updating an almost centuries old genre wasn't something i was necessarily chomping at the bit to listen to when i heard someone describe the album to me before i'd actually listened to it, but now i've had the pleasure i'd gladly recommend this.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting July 5, 2012

By tomasz b

Format:MP3 Music

After playing this album for the past two weeks I'm still not sure. It's one of those records that you are not sure about true quality of the music until you see it performed live. Think James Blake or Beach House. I think this is the case here, though I'm yet to see Daughn Gibson performing live.

The record itself is a mix of both brilliant and bland, totally skippable ideas. While the electronic and country mix at first seems to work out well, I realized that it is only Gibsons Johhny-Cash-esque voice that makes some songs stand out a bit from the endless sea of redundant and skippable electronic music. If you take out Gibson's vocals from songs such as "Tiffany Lou". "Young Girls World", "Looking Back on 99" what you have left is a below-average electronic music (check "Looking Back on 99" which sounds like Kruder & Dorfmeister lounge commodity music).

At the end of the day, the voice is there, and this record is indeed pretty entertaing and works well if you look for a good, consistent background music.