Given to the Wild
by The Maccabees
  • Record Label: Fiction
  • Release Date: Jan 9, 2012
User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. PopMatters
    Feb 27, 2012
    70
    Given to the Wild is an accomplished, filler-free record that presents a band at peak condition, handily exceeding the marginal example set by similar-sounding acts.
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  2. Pitchfork
    Feb 13, 2012
    40
    The personalities on this album are so blank the songs may as well be performed by apps, and sung by Siri.
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  3. The Fly (UK)
    Feb 10, 2012
    90
    Impressively diverse but united by a strain of quintessentially Maccabeean hopeless hopefulness, it's an outpouring of both technical brilliance and affective emotion that thrives in its sheer humanity.
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