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Departing

The Rural Alberta Advantage

Departing

Second album of indie rock from the Canadian trio

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Saddle Creek
UK Release date
28/02/2011
US Release date
01/03/2011
  1. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    Exciting in its pacing, invigorated in its writing, and illustrious in its instrumentation
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    An album that remarkably stuns, even though its world view is largely seen from a car stuck in the middle of snow bank on the side of the road
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  3. 8.0 |   The Fly

    This is gleeful, irresistible, magical stuff
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  4. 7.5 |   Prefix

    Sparsely lit lover’s folk is by no means a fresh development, but The Rural Alberta Advantage continue to take the sound in new, interesting ways
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  5. 7.5 |   Bowlegs

    The songs throughout this album are powerful, memorable and some really moving
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  6. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    Throughout Departing, RAA keep the tones very cool
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  7. 7.1 |   Beats Per Minute

    An enjoyable but still not entirely satisfying collection of songs that don’t really work as well together as they do apart
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  8. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The Toronto band's thematic template doesn't make any radical departures from their debut, but they nevertheless display newfound restraint and maturity
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  9. 6.7 |   Pitchfork

    The relatively sparse and chilly tone of Departing ultimately feels less like a slump than a conscious decision to present itself as the wintertime counterpart to Hometowns' prairie summer
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  10. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    While a surface-level listen to these songs is satisfying, they won’t hold up for too long
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  11. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Where RAA once vividly evoked the fierce howling of the prairie wind, the recollections of it are now far hazier
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  12. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Departing builds on themes the band explored on 2009 debut Hometowns with another batch of geographically specific Canadian tales of tumultuous loves
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  13. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    These are simple, almost campfire songs
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  14. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The album never fully soars either imaginatively or musically
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