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Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Q Magazine
    Nov 22, 2013
    60
    It's all very melancholy and mysterious, as you'd imagine, but the production has a pleasingly seductive, 12st-century sheen. [Dec 2013, p.103]
  2. Uncut
    Oct 29, 2013
    60
    Ambient ebb and flow aside, vocals and synth/guitar motifs show Outside as a pp record, while a darkly urgent cover of Bonnie "Prince" Billy's "Strange Form Of Life" provides unexpected topspin. [Nov 2013, p.67]
  3. Oct 21, 2013
    60
    Unfortunately, without much to grasp onto in terms of tunes, hooks or discernible lyrics CFCF can slink away into the territory of background music, albeit prettily and inoffensively.
  4. Oct 21, 2013
    60
    Ultimately, Outside's exercises in nostalgia are pretty, smooth, and inoffensive, but not nearly as interesting as CFCF's debut album or the EPs that followed it.
  5. Oct 21, 2013
    60
    Silver may believe in the changeless beauty of his art, but he doesn’t quite succeed in convincing the rest of us.
  6. 60
    It's a well-assembled album, and the steady trance-like flow of 'The Forest At Night', and the eiderdown of sound on 'Transcend' are absorbing.
  7. Jan 13, 2014
    40
    It’s tranquil, amiable and very familiar.
  8. Oct 21, 2013
    40
    Some may find something deep and spiritual amongst the cuts on Outside, but it just makes this reviewer want to stay indoors.
  9. 40
    Outside sounds exactly like the repetitive spinning wheels on a bus (going ’round and ’round) and causes you to become restless and slightly angry of its lack of forward movement.

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