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9.0
24144
9.0 |
Beats Per Minute
Requires little more from his listeners than to sit back and witness the craft at its peak
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8.5
24310
8.5 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
The shifts in tone and tempo are masterful
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8.3
24231
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Even when Darnielle waxes grandiose and fantastical, his wit and grit ground his poetry in the quietest kind of ache
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8.1
24180
8.1 |
Pitchfork
After four years of live practice, they now sound like a properly developed unit that's comfortable with its ideas and approaches
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8.0
24196
8.0 |
musicOMH
Their most assured sound
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8.0
23956
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Arrangements remain a secondary concern, as they should on an album so lyrically rich
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8.0
24249
8.0 |
Blurt
The Goats set emotional unease to driving acoustic rock, lush pop, dynamic piano rock and Darnielle's standard folk/pop
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8.0
24257
8.0 |
PopMatters
More Victorian haunted house than grindhouse exploitation
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8.0
24291
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Something that feels new, creepy and desirable
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8.0
24527
8.0 |
DIY
Despite not being a massively radical departure from recent outings, it won't dent their perceivable legacy
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8.0
24534
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Comfort food from an unlikely kitchen
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8.0
24824
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Comfort food from an unlikely kitchen
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8.0
25302
8.0 |
No Ripcord
A very strong addition to an already vast canon of work
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8.0
25819
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
A record that will doubtless help you make it through this year
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8.0
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8.0 |
FasterLouder
Darnielle is the kind of artist who doesn’t so much write songs as create actual tapestries where the music is just as important as the lyrical narrative
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8.0
24309
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Displays control, attention to detail, and cohesion
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7.0
24945
7.0 |
The Quietus
Simple, and unadorned
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7.0
25066
7.0 |
NME
Occasionally devastating, often outstanding
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7.0
24250
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Not only is he a master of moods but an unparalleled songwriter in pop music
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7.0
23788
7.0 |
Spin
If All Eternals Deck rarely stumbles, it rarely surprises, either
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7.0
24216
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The Mountain Goats' latest shows Darnielle's folk rock growing more diverse, swelled with strings and choral harmonizing
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6.0
24000
6.0 |
Q
His songs sound like enigmatic fragments of short stories. Print edition only
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6.0
24027
6.0 |
Mojo
The perfect balance between wild imagery and plaintive sentiment. Print edition only
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6.0
24067
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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6.0
23897
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
Boasts image-rich songs about relationships and loneliness, and poetic lyrics from a songwriter with very few peers
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6.0
24297
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s meditative, sometimes brooding
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6.0
24303
6.0 |
BBC
Plays like a series of short films which come with no explanation or conclusion
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6.0
25806
6.0 |
The Skinny
An acquired taste, perhaps, but this is the real deal
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6.0
24693
6.0 |
AU Review
Despite the ever-engaging lyrical content, the arrangements don’t always match up
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5.5
24308
5.5 |
Bowlegs
Darnielle brings tales of the hidden straight to the heart
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