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9.0
118770
9.0 |
All Music
Fifteen years into a tirelessly curious evolution, the band sound more comfortable and surefooted here than ever before
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8.0
118771
8.0 |
Uncut
Might be about dreaming and escape but it's also about their limitations, our need for hoke and the importance of other people. Print edition only
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8.0
118772
8.0 |
Q
A sublime tonic. Print edition only
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8.0
118773
8.0 |
PopMatters
Despite the impending doom, it sounds euphoric
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8.0
118787
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Strange to Explain is warm, weightless, and free-spirited. It doesn’t need to be compartmentalized – it’s gorgeous, and that’s enough
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7.5
118798
7.5 |
Pitchfork
The New York psych-folk band makes a welcome return to form with a dreamy, unsettling, Mellotron-filled album that feels especially appropriate right now
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7.5
118805
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Carved from a deeply personal place, the record wanders amongst the warm thickets of Woods’ discography like an explorer
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7.3
118825
7.3 |
Paste Magazine
After their longest hiatus to date, Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taverniere return with an album that feels comfortably settled into its strengths
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7.2
118789
7.2 |
Beats Per Minute
What starts out as a great Woods record unfortunately peters out towards the end. Regardless, Woods have assembled a worthy “comeback” album of sorts, one that highlights all of their best moments, and even some of their more forgettable ideas
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7.0
118775
7.0 |
Gigwise
Woods resurface with a kaleidoscopic new album
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6.0
118797
6.0 |
No Ripcord
It's hard not to conclude that Strange to Explain lacks something critical.
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5.0
118774
5.0 |
Exclaim
Instead of people in a room playing guitars and drums and singing into real space, here you can almost feel the sliders sliding and new stereo tracks clicking open on the computer
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