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  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips was self-produced.
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  1. Sep 11, 2025
    80
    In the Hour of Dust ends on a note of affirmation and encouragement, a fitting end to a work that, while cinematic and beautifully rendered, remains a protest record at heart.
  2. Mojo
    Sep 11, 2025
    80
    The songs here are among his most direct and fully focused. [Oct 2025, p.81]
  3. Uncut
    Sep 11, 2025
    70
    Phillips has released a dozen solo albums characterised by a vivid lyricism and a rootsy, melodic sensibility, paired with the ability to throw in an unconventional chord so the song never goes quite where you expect. Those qualities are as strong as ever on In The Hour Of Dust. [Oct 2025, p.31]
  4. Sep 17, 2025
    70
    There’s some subtle but slick Hollywood airbrushing over a fair amount of this putative dust; there’s too much driving around in cars (because LA); and the problem with too many lullabies is that they can lead to “America Snoring”. .... Yet to carp about all this is to miss something important about Grant-Lee Phillips: he is very, very good at what he does.
  5. Record Collector
    Sep 11, 2025
    60
    This is intelligent easy listening in a band setting. [Oct 2025, p.132]