Away
by Okkervil River
  • Record Label: ATO
  • Release Date: Sep 9, 2016
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
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  1. onetwoyve
    Sep 9, 2016
    5
    Hard to reach the highness of the three first albums but this album is still good, better than the last ones. It just misses a couple of really good good songs. I remember how fascinated I was when I first heard "Red" or "The War Criminal" or "For Real". These songs seems like unreachable again. Sad.

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. No Ripcord
    Oct 17, 2016
    70
    Away may only appeal to those who are truly committed to Shelf’s unyieldingly wry judgment, but the score that accompanies it is beautifully intoxicating.
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  2. Blurt Magazine
    Sep 27, 2016
    60
    Away has some fine moments, but is an LP completists will get the most mileage out of, perhaps as that curio figure in an artist’s evolution to somewhere else.
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  3. The Independent (UK)
    Sep 22, 2016
    80
    After bandmates quit and more heavy blows rained down, he retreated to a cabin, where these wonderful songs poured out. “Frontman In Heaven” is one of several which both mourn and resurrect the idiocies and potent faith of the rock’n’roll age.
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