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All Music Guide

Their inspired, eclectic mix of sounds and textures is always playful, but Taiga's powerful playing and sophisticated arrangements make it OOIOO's most mature album yet.

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PopMatters

I’m not saying this is the easiest music to deal with; those with more vanilla tastes will not want to come anywhere near this. But for avant-garde multi-genre music from Japan, it’s awfully cuddly and adorable.

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cokemachineglow

All of its tracks are kila kila killer.

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Uncut

Effortlessly ambitious. [Oct 2006, p.119]

Stylus Magazine

The language barrier and discord makes the record incomprehensible, but nearly everything is still as intoxicating and entertaining as hell.

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Dusted Magazine

Mostly Taiga is about sensation, playful and wild and smart but moving way too fast for contemplation.

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Lost At Sea

Taiga is a surprisingly approachable album.

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Spin

What's so brilliant about ['Taiga'] is how Yoshimi finds spiritual connections between unlikely genres. [Oct 2006, p.102]

Pitchfork

Taiga is OOIOO's broadest, busiest, and furthest reaching album to date. Strangely, those same characteristics ruin it.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes

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matt a gave it a7:
Definitely not for all tastes, but there is something incredibly hypnotic and strangely beautiful about this album. In my opinion, this is better than any boredom's album I've heard and even slightly better than the only other OOIOO album I've heard, Gold And Green. If you're feeling adventurous and want something completely different, look no further than this album.

Leo F gave it a10:
Taiga means big river in japanese and forest in russian, and this is kinda how this album sounds like: raw, organic, powerful. OOIOO's best album yet and one of the best releases of 2006.

roy f gave it a1:
This is simply put, an annoying record. Images of bare white, bead clad feet kicking up suburban dust while organic apple juiced is served at just the right temperature abound. No one will think any less of you for binning this and admitting that you never actually liked it anyway. This is an irking (spiritual lacing together of genres, my bum) din.

Todd W gave it an8:
It's great to hear a member of the Boredoms flexing her creative muscles, considering that band has been essentially stagnant since dropping the ultimate tribal brainmelt that is Vision Creation Newsun. While Taiga is nowhere near as jaw-dropping, it's a whole different beast. Without Eye on board to flail in the foreground, Yoshimi's prowess for all things percussion takes center stage. With songs firmly indebted to free jazz and even prog, you get an album that routinely captivates, but tends to meander more than the recent releases by its maximalist brethren. And, as usual, the cover artwork should preclude any true music fan from downloading or burning the album.

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