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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Kerrang!
    Feb 20, 2013
    80
    Lovers of folk rock take note: Arbouretum are likely to be a deserving early entry in your best of 2013 list. [19 Jan 2013, p.54]
  2. Feb 6, 2013
    70
    Ultimately, Coming Out of the Fog is about song, rather than sound, but that sharply-crafted sound definitely its say as well.
  3. Feb 1, 2013
    70
    There are times on Coming Out Of The Fog when Arbouretum seem to be a little too self indulgent and one paced, but each of these songs has a hook that digs deep and refuses to let go.
  4. Jan 22, 2013
    70
    It's a leaner, grittier iteration of Arbouretum that slowly lopes out of the starting blocks on this fifth full-length.
  5. Jan 22, 2013
    80
    Coming Out Of The Fog is an album of light and shade and one that benefits more from what's not in it than is.
  6. Jan 17, 2013
    70
    Coming Out of the Fog is quite a good album, but it contains no real surprises.
  7. Uncut
    Jan 15, 2013
    70
    The best thing about Coming Out Of The Fog, then, is that it's charged with possibility--paradoxically, by stripping Heumann's songs back to their core, simplifying and reducing, he's opened up a space in which the group could really ride into the sun. [Feb 2013, p.72]
  8. Jan 15, 2013
    69
    On Fog, Arbouretum does well by both parties [his songwriting influences: singer Will Oldham, with whom he toured as a backing guitarist, and Baltimore punk-rock-Gnostics, Lungfish].
  9. Jan 15, 2013
    70
    While there are some changes in pace here and there--the quicker, tenser "The Promise"; the piano-led title track that concludes the album; the short, fierce instrumental "Easter Island"--generally the album is a bit of a blur, shifting moods here and there without fully distinguishing itself track by track.

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