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Universal acclaim- based on 151 Ratings
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Positive: 134 out of 151
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Mixed: 8 out of 151
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Negative: 9 out of 151
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Apr 11, 2012Yeasayer are untouchable musically with Odd Blood, they have fun with a new, electronic direction whilst still keeping their positive world and afrobeat energies burning brightly.
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Jan 30, 2012The album as a whole stands as a pretty darn good pop album. My biggest question is whether or not Odd Blood will stand the test of time.
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Jul 30, 2011yea this album was good. it was psychedelic and experimental music in fused with pop. it was weird but enjoyable. i liked it. its a good album from that type of genre. love me girl and i remember are stand out tracks.
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May 8, 2011
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Dec 22, 2010Beautiful and infectious from track 2 on. There's nothing inherently wrong with the opening track, "The Children," but the rest of the album is absolutely stunning, experimental, and just plain fun to listen to. This is so close to being a 10. One of the best albums of 2010.
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Nov 30, 2010Experimental. A word used to describe many recent albums. This is one of the few albums that actually fits that definition, as you Yeasayer brings us an album absolutely nothing like it's predecessor, which is a very good thing. The album sounds simple, yet feels complex: a paradox which will have you hitting the repeat button constantly.
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Nov 2, 2010A breath of fresh air. There is nothing more invigorating than hearing a band having such fun, experimenting and playing around with their sound, teasing the quirky potential out of every track. I haven't been this excited by an album since Late of the Pier's debut.
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An overcooked vanity piece from a band inflated by praise, Odd Blood heads in every direction at once.
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Odd Blood peaks in the middle, with two marvelous extended tracks which take the raw materials of '80s soul and funk and somehow manage to inject the mesmeric, insistent rhythms of Krautrock without making a terrible mess of things.
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The biggest, boldest, and best moments on their second album nod flamboyantly to influences never before evident -- Erasure ("Ambling Alp") and Haircut 100 (the tropical "O.N.E."), among others -- but somehow they're seamlessly integrated with trippier old jams.