For The Season - The Gris Gris
Metascore
77 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    90
    A disorientatingly great mess of free-jazz, space-rock and voodoo swamp music. [10 Dec 2005, p.37]
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Soupy and chaotic as it may be, there's something truly hypnotic about the indescribability of it all. [2 Dec 2005, p.81]
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  3. Spin
    83
    Instead of updating psych garage folk, they allow its corpus to fester in skronky breakdowns, churning feedback, and... a wicked spirit-medium session. [Jan 2006, p.91]
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  4. Playlouder
    80
    Gris Gris' practice of bleeding their songs together in dissonance creates a roller coaster that renders 'For The Season' over before you've really realised it's begun.
  5. Uncut
    80
    The Gris Gris are a challenging, intense proposition. [Jan 2006, p.113]
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  6. Urb
    80
    This isn't the neo-hippie folk of Devendra Banhart, but something far more sinister. [Dec 2005, p.96]
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  7. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    They continue with their dark, shambling, lo-fi, black-magic psychedelia, but whereas much of their previous work had either sounded like direct covers or noisy filler, they've gained a great deal of control over their sound for this one.
  8. Pitchfork
    74
    Lacking the emotional knack for jaw-dropping singles, the band succeeds in consistently churning out songs that would be solid filler on an amazing album-- a Magical Mystery Tour comprised solely of "Blue Jay Way"'s.
  9. All Music Guide
    70
    While the album's ambitions occasionally get the better of the actual music, For the Season's intermittent brilliance is worth digging and waiting for.
  10. Prefix Magazine
    70
    A bewildering kaleidoscopic whirlwind that retains edginess and remains splendid all at once.
  11. Austin Chronicle
    67
    The second album from Gris Gris may be the most eclectic cut-and-paste psychedelic freak-out committed to tape in the Lone Star state since the Red Krayola cut The Parable of Arable Land back in 1967.
  12. Stylus Magazine
    67
    The difference... between For the Season and Gris Gris’s debut album is that the detours are less frequent and less distracting.
  13. NOW Magazine
    60
    This could be any novice eight-track job recorded in a basement or garage, but at least For The Season comes off like the work of a real band for a change.
  14. Magnet
    50
    On first listen, For The Season is pleasantly trippy. Listen closely, however, and it seems rather patchy. [#70, p.100]
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User Score
8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. ToddR
    7
    Occassionally annoying, but mostly appealing neo-psych rock.
  2. RalphH
    10
    yes me face melt me brain tingle.yes
  3. dr.vannostren
    9
    grows on you
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