Ma Fleur
by The Cinematic Orchestra
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Jun 5, 2007
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 1 out of 17

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  1. JC
    Jun 6, 2007
    6
    The album is just incredibly plain and boring, a far cry from what the Cinematic Orchestra has produced in the past. It's not a particularly bad album, but it isn't good either.
  2. ImmersedInSound
    Nov 19, 2014
    6
    Made with skill and not exactly bad. But a bore to listen to.
    With the exception of To Build A Home all of Ma Fleur is a tediously airy fairy experience. If that makes any sense. Sort of like Bon Iver or Arcade Fire but without that wonderful feeling of originality and the vital emotional connection. Maybe even slightly pretentious in places and lacking in redeeming features I won't be    Made with skill and not exactly bad. But a bore to listen to.
    With the exception of To Build A Home all of Ma Fleur is a tediously airy fairy experience. If that makes any sense. Sort of like Bon Iver or Arcade Fire but without that wonderful feeling of originality and the vital emotional connection. Maybe even slightly pretentious in places and lacking in redeeming features I won't be listening to any of The Cinematic Orchestras other work.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

97
#97 Best Album of 2007
42
#42 Most Shared Album of 2007

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. BBC collective
    100
    It’s not just the recurrent meditations on mortality that makes Ma Fleur even more heart-rendingly beautiful than 2002’s Everyday, it’s also how The Cinematic Orchestra’s new album actually feels.
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  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    While Ma Fleur is no better than The Cinematic Orchestra’s previous scores, it is equally gorgeous in how it responds to and ekes out intellectual quagmires of song.
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  3. musicOMH.com
    80
    With its frequent emotional crescendos, then quiet dying away, Ma Fleur is more than a match for its predecessors, and will undoubtedly cement The Cinematic Orchestra’s reputation as intellectually sustaining performers of beautiful, emotive music.
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