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8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the garage rock singer was co-produced with Michael Cheever.
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  • Record Label: Fat Possum
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Noise Pop
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  1. Sep 24, 2013
    90
    It's the work of an artist at the absolute top of her game, and as a result, Herein Wild ranks as one of the best, most inspired and inspiring, albums of 2013.
  2. Nov 15, 2013
    80
    For the time being, Herein Wild skies above us and we owe it to ourselves to try and give it a reach and let us take it wherever it wants to take us.
  3. Q Magazine
    Nov 25, 2013
    80
    It's stylistically close to 2012's excellent Interstellar, but on this form, too much of a good thing just isn't possible. [Dec 2013, p.112]
  4. Under The Radar
    Oct 1, 2013
    65
    Herein Wild is a nice record, skillfully executed, but it's essentially the aural equivalent of living in a padded cell: so soft and secure you find yourself yearning for some harsh everyday reality. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.94]
  5. Sep 24, 2013
    64
    It might be subject to less scrutiny had it not followed Interstellar, but then again, it might not be subject to scrutiny at all, and simply filed away with any other competent and unexceptional dream-pop.
  6. Jan 13, 2014
    60
    In the grand scheme of things this is not epochal work. In the world of rock ‘n’ roll this is to the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen as Chausson or Bridge were to Wagner or Mahler. But those lighter composers had their charms and pleasures, and with Herein Wild so does Frankie Rose.
  7. Sep 25, 2013
    40
    Those pop songs, [not the ones on Herein Wild,] confess everything and never apologize. Herein Wild just disappears.

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