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10.0
6347
10.0 |
The Guardian
It's not a cool exercise in technique: the music often surges with pure joy
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9.0
7553
9.0 |
The Observer
No record thrummed with as much warmth, humour and invention this year
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8.0
6556
8.0 |
musicOMH
If you relish a challenge, and like music to brace you as much as entertain you, then this should fit the bill. Like no-one else very much, but very much herself, it is one woman's raw, open and compelling testament
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8.0
6593
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
On this record, Merril Garbus manages the impressive feat of condensing much of the decade’s more interesting musical trends into one very well delivered tapestry
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8.0
6659
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
Bird Brains’ collage aesthetic encompasses recorded snippets of children screaming and bird calls before subsiding into Garbus’ folky campfire songs
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7.0
6843
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Garbus has crammed so many ideas in here it demands repeat listens to open up all the idiosyncrasies and often witty lyrics hidden in this Pandora’s Box of an album
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7.0
6894
7.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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7.0
618
7.0 |
PopMatters
... it is about Garbus’ distrust of her own creations, the unstable relationship between the artist and his or her own naggingly imperfect art. That it so frequently manages to be as engaging as it is eccentric should hopefully soothe some of Garbus’ insecurities.
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6.8
6367
6.8 |
Pitchfork
If you don't have a tolerance for cut-rate sonics-- and this isn't even the warm analog stuff-- forget about it. But if you do, the best songs on BiRd-BrAiNs can sneak up on you
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6.0
7143
6.0 |
Rave Magazine
Sounds like a collection of demos for what could be a really exciting and excellent album – but if you give a shit about sound quality you’ll wait until Garbus scrapes together enough cash to invest in some studio time
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6.0
7527
6.0 |
Blurt
...the end result is often gorgeous in its own peculiar way
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