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9.0
74261
9.0 |
musicOMH
Whisper it, but Vetiver may have just made one of the albums of the year
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8.0
75365
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A true antidote to everything gauche, obvious and fucking boring about modern guitar music
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8.0
74376
8.0 |
Uncut
Unforced, liquid in its forward movement and refreshingly free of pretence or irony. Print edition only
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7.5
74262
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
A subtle album that feels immediately familiar, yet reveals fresh and unexpected elements with each new listen
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7.0
74260
7.0 |
The 405
It's a beautifully produced record and almost addictive with the allure of its sublime tones, percussive arrangements that draw you in and an attractive coil of guitar phrasings
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6.0
77517
6.0 |
Mojo
Hallmarked by songs bathed in incessant West Coast sun. Print edition only
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6.0
78307
6.0 |
Q
San Francisco hippies finally shake off freak-folk straightjacket. Print edition only
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6.0
78536
6.0 |
The Independent
Although an improvement on 2011’s The Errant Charm, this finds Vetiver mainman Andy Cabic struggling to impose greater definition on his sun-bleached West Coast throwback style
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6.0
78537
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Even if you start this album as a complete stranger to Vetiver’s world, you’ll feel like a bosom buddy by the end
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6.0
78539
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This an album that spans the various moods of Vetiver. There’s bitterness, declarations of progress, recurrent hope, and good old melancholia. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t call it an especially strong mood survey
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5.0
74524
5.0 |
Earbuddy
Complete Strangers, is certainly high on the atmosphere, so high, in fact, that it leaves room for little else
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5.0
74531
5.0 |
PopMatters
The lack of substance, coupled with an occasionally overwhelming “lite-ness” that veers dangerously close to easy-listening, makes Complete Strangers a less than solid effort
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5.0
74259
5.0 |
All Music
It's always tough to see a band as consistently good as Vetiver take a stumble; one can only hope they can recover from this slumbering disaster next time out
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4.9
74263
4.9 |
Pitchfork
It’s as if, after a decade, Vetiver is waiting for Andy Cabic’s real voice to enter the mix at last
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4.0
78535
4.0 |
The Arts Desk
Unfortunately, Complete Strangers, issued in the UK four months after its US release, is uninspired, uninspiring aural wallpaper
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2.0
78538
2.0 |
The Skinny
A sterile and lifeless bore
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