''Dumb Luck'' is the fourth studio album by American electronic music artist

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. It was released through

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on April 24, 2007. Recorded between 2002 and 2006, it includes vocal contributions from

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Critical reception

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Dumb Luck'' received an average score of 60% based on 22 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Jimmy Newlin of ''

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'' gave the album 2 stars out of 5 and called it "a work that is genuinely, though only sporadically, beautiful, but no less emotionally dull." Jason Crock of ''

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'' gave the album a 6.8 out of 10 and commented that "While some of the album's songs are terrifically cloying, I can't call it a disappointment; it's more a case of diminishing returns."

Critical reception

Track listing

Charts

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