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Generally favorable reviews- based on 64 Ratings
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Positive: 38 out of 64
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Mixed: 20 out of 64
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Negative: 6 out of 64
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Dec 3, 2010really bad compared to the first two. this is overproduced and the tracks are shallow and the lyricshas no depth. Also the band has changed. Back to basics please.
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Nov 22, 2010Bring mainstream rock, pyschedelic pop, and folk together, "Infinite Arms" would be the end result with no sparkle or anything else that would keep the album alive. It's kind of like, "I've heard this way too many times before".
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Aug 20, 2010Definitely disappointing. We might have hoped this was their epic but instead it's just bland. Not one slow building masterpiece like we've come to expect from BoH. Put it this way - the single, Laredo, really is the standout song.
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NavyBeanBeanMay 31, 2010A few good songs. But lyrically bizarre and feels like he wrote it in a rush. Too many instances where it feels like they just said, "we'll do a little arrangement, just sing what comes to you." The Bartles and James song is ridiculous.
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MaggieH.May 31, 2010With much anticipation for the 3rd album, I find myself a bit dissappointed. Lacks the emotion and fervor that songs off the first and even second album had. I'm hoping it's one of those albums if u listen to long enough ull love, but so far it's not looking that way....shame really.
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marcobMay 28, 2010No heart, no ideas, the biggest delusion of the year.
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percytMay 27, 2010Very underwhelming. the best thing this band could do is cancel the tour, get back in the studio and start again. so disappointing, i had waited ages for this.
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ALL242May 26, 2010
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NateTMay 24, 2010Not too impressed...digressed from first 2 albums.
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LanceZ.May 23, 2010Very underwhelming. Change in overall tempo from the previous two albums could doom Band of Horses.
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DavidDMay 18, 2010Definitely not anything close to there best. Actually a little disappointing--had been waiting for this album for quite some time.
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Awards & Rankings
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At its best, Arms is a pleasant album, one that sounds good on the surface or as background music. For most bands, that's perfectly acceptable. But for a group like Band Of Horses--whose ambitions have always intersected with being meaningful and transcendent, too--somehow just being acceptable makes Arms fall short.
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Fans of the band, and those with a rustling liking for a certain kind of beard-here-now Americana, will devour this like a bottle of the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler referenced on the last track.
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Their third album Infinite Arms glows with that familiar sound, a sound born with an American heart.