• Record Label: Badman
  • Release Date: Feb 12, 2013
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68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Apr 23, 2013
    40
    More a series of half-drawn soundscapes than actual songs per se, No Elephants comes across as an exercise in the abstract, in which the artist makes almost no attempt to color inside the outlines.
  2. Mar 8, 2013
    60
    Admirable as the craft on display on No Elephants may be, as a listening experience the album is often hard to enjoy.
  3. Feb 20, 2013
    76
    As a stepping stone forward and backward, No Elephants preserves her musical legacy while subtly altering her own approach to these sounds.
  4. Feb 13, 2013
    63
    The samples and some of the lyrics feel a little too controlled, on-message, and conceptual, which is unusual since her songs often tease out the dark emotion in mundane, everyday moments. As a result, No Elephants often feels hermetic and occasionally impenetrably austere.
  5. Under The Radar
    Feb 11, 2013
    75
    No Elephants is a strong if entirely unsurprising record. [Jan-Feb 2013, p.93]
  6. Feb 11, 2013
    80
    No Elephants is a gorgeous album, but maybe the most interesting thing about it is the way it bites through the beauty.
  7. Feb 11, 2013
    70
    Germano's gift for conjuring otherworldly melodies is as strong as ever. That said, she's still, and will always be, a niche artist.
  8. Magnet
    Feb 11, 2013
    60
    [Her high-pitched vocals] restricts her melodies a bit too much for their own good, and some more dynamic performances near the album's end can't save it from fading in a poof of uneasy effervescence. [No. 95, p.55]

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