• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: May 11, 2010
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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 17 out of 22
  2. Negative: 3 out of 22

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60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

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  1. While they have many good ideas, sometimes they have too many good ideas at once and end up gilding the lily (or putting a blue fake fur mustache on it, as the case may be).
  2. What saves Grey Oceans is the occasional good idea: the Eastern-tinged Smokey Taboo mixes tablas and wilting strings with Bianca's woozy, half-rapped vocal to impressive effect, while the very peculiar Fairy Paradise is, more or less, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy as remixed by Paul van Dyk.
  3. So after the outré highs and lows of Grey Oceans have played their last syllable, it's hard to know what to think of it, apart from being slightly underwhelmed for the most part.