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Tiny Mix Tapes

A perfect album.

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BBC collective

Though it still errs toward a languid late-60s template, Cabic’s songwriting is now crisp and effortlessly melodic.

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Delusions of Adequacy

Sublime.

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Filter

It's Cabic's soft-sung delivery and chiming acoustic harmonies that give Vetiver their charm. [#21, p.96]

Paste Magazine

What a difference a year (and a beard) makes. [Sep 2006, p.75]

Alternative Press

Ageless and deeply affecting. [Jul 2006, p.210]

Q Magazine

This homebrewed, spacious music can still sound pretty blissful, but the quality songs have a directness and variety that will please David Gray fans as much as the acid folk devotees. [Jul 2006, p.119]

Prefix Magazine

It's never anything less than gorgeous.

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Observer Music Monthly

Eschewing the Incredible String Band nostalgia of Espers et al for a more complex hybrid somewhere between the Kinks at their most relaxed and the Band at their most committed, Vetiver have made a record that's as summery as a field full of butterflies.

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Mojo

To Find Me Gone won't win any awards for wheel reinvention, but it's no sterile exercise in genre classicism. [Jul 2006, p.101]

cokemachineglow

To Find Me Gone shows a band as adept at bucking trends as they are at invoking tradition.

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Pitchfork

[To Find Me Gone] finds Cabic nudging Vetiver toward the lost canyons of airy West Coast soft-rock and laid-back, country-tinged introspection, all harvested with a dreamy, narcotic warmth and just enough melodic grit to avoid a complete departure off into the twilight.

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All Music Guide

Pleasant if undemanding listening.

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Dusted Magazine

This is a decidedly unhurried album, and it takes a while to find the small pleasures within each song. But once you do, it’s really fantastic.

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The Wire

There's more here than nostalgia, with a range of styles and influences incorporated into Cabic's deceptively direct arrangements, and an afterglow that's testament to his talents. [#269, p.53]

Spin

These are the kind of go-with-the-flow countrified tunes that the Grateful Dead used to spin between epic jams, but with a more delicate acoustic touch. [Jul 2006, p.90]

PopMatters

Vetiver makes first rate folk pop music that can be as fine as a walk on a spring day with brightly colored wildflowers mixed in the meadow, sweet smells in the placid breezes, and newly hatched insects flying by.

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Uncut

Features more of the uncomplicated Californian country-rock fare that was hinted at by the cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Save Me A Place" on last year's Between EP. [Jul 2006, p.116]

Slant Magazine

It's a compelling, forward-thinking album that's as likely to please fans of melodic indie-pop and roots-rock as it is fans of the current crop of folk troubadours.

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New Musical Express

Cabic's alt.blues vocals sometimes sound disinterested, but they merely act as a device for the music to take over the listener. [1 Jul 2006, p.36]

Stylus Magazine

Really, though, Cabic needs more “Red Lantern Girls,” a gauzy folk workout that hides and seeks until a brutish electric guitar prods the rhythm and heads for higher ground. It is everything the rest of the album is not: aggressive, terse, and surprising.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jon gave it a10:
What I like to call a "go-to" album, especially for those headphonic moments of wistfulness and nostalgia. Certainly not innovative, but gorgeous, impeccably arranged songs top to bottom. For me, an early contender for album of the year.

Matt D. gave it an8:
Many songs on here are good, forward thinking indie-folk - while some other songs are underdeveloped.

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