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Jan 15, 2013While 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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Feb 6, 2013Ultimately, Coming Out of the Fog is about song, rather than sound, but that sharply-crafted sound definitely its say as well.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 6, 2013Their music, while distinctive, is a rather rudimentary and static thing, with a limited melodic spectrum. [Mar 2013, p.96]
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Jan 17, 2013Coming Out of the Fog is quite a good album, but it contains no real surprises.
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Jan 22, 2013It's a leaner, grittier iteration of Arbouretum that slowly lopes out of the starting blocks on this fifth full-length.
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Kerrang!Feb 20, 2013Lovers 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]
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MojoJan 15, 2013Arbouretum have reined in the Crazy Horse-gallop-on-for-hours excesses of earlier outings, for sharper impact. [Jan 2013, p.91]
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Feb 1, 2013There 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.
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Jan 15, 2013On 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].
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Feb 1, 2013While Arbouretum is at least as proficient as ever, Coming out of the Fog lacks the teeth of its predecessors.
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013Fog is about as far from his work with Will Oldham as it's possible to be while still playing the guitar. [Feb 2013, p.101]
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Jan 15, 2013The band's fifth full-length is a sluggish drone of guitars so muddy they sound like they were recorded in a bog married to pseudo-spiritual waffling from singer Dave Heumann.
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Jan 22, 2013Coming Out Of The Fog is an album of light and shade and one that benefits more from what's not in it than is.
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UncutJan 15, 2013The 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]