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10.0
26160
10.0 |
Subba Cultcha
[A] truly lovely album ... steeped in imagery of water and death
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9.0
15706
9.0 |
PopMatters
It’s hard to pick a standout track when the quality is as high as it is here
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7.0
15707
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Ra Ra Riot’s focus on overall listenability may have produced an album lacking some of the excitement found on their first record. While The Orchard is certainly a pretty record, it’s not always the most thrilling
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7.0
15780
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Whatever depth is lacking, Ra Ra Riot have nevertheless grown more distinctive and accomplished this time around, carving out a clear niche
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6.0
15850
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
A strange and delightful mix of dreamy swooning and sweat-soaked fist pumping
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6.0
15709
6.0 |
Spin
They deliver the sort of mid-tempo, orch-pop fussiness that they'd been praised for transcending
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6.0
26495
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There's so much promise here. But something seems to have veered from the right path, slightly
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6.0
26646
6.0 |
The Fly
Occasionally, the songs are over-burdened by the multitude of instruments, but this is still a blissful and breezy album of sumptuous summer sensations
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6.0
26159
6.0 |
BBC
Accomplished and impressive as it is, The Orchard equally often feels studied, its core parts fussed over at the expense of the lyrical and melodic shapes needed to energise them
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5.7
15771
5.7 |
Pitchfork
Pushes their stylistic range at the cost of hooks
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5.0
15708
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The main problem with this album is its lack of great songs to support their style
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5.0
16210
5.0 |
Under The Radar
Too much of the album...is immediately forgotten
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5.0
15841
5.0 |
Blurt
The band hasn't completely tumbled off the cliff, merely lost its footing a bit
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5.0
26909
5.0 |
musicOMH
Disappointingly, frustratingly ephemeral collection
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4.0
27080
4.0 |
Q
All told this is a backwards step. Print edition only
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