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  • Summary: Hush Arbors worked on five songs and Arbouretum had the other three tracks on this psych-folk album.
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  • Record Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Indie Folk
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Under The Radar
    Jul 9, 2012
    70
    In terms of strict musical presence, Arbouretum's tracks take the prize, but both bands offer folk/psych goodies to forget yourself to. [Jun 2012, p.158]
  2. Jun 15, 2012
    70
    It's the complementary nature of the bands' sentiments more than their sounds that makes Aureola successful.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 15, 2012
    70
    It's an intriguing juxtaposition of the crunchy and the smooth. [May 2012, p.75]
  4. Jun 15, 2012
    60
    So a game of two halves, with enough excitement from Arbouretum to keep it interesting--but cosmic Americana fans may find more solace in their (excellent) previous two records The Gathering and Song of the Pearl than they will here.
  5. Jun 15, 2012
    50
    Though Arbouretum comes out more interestingly here than Hush Arbors, Wood's music is a more intriguing in its weirdness.