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Recording A Tape The Colour Of The Light - Bell Orchestre
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Metascore
74 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critics What's this?

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Summary: This is the long-in-the-making debut album for the instrumental Montreal band that shares two members (Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry) with the Arcade Fire.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    [Bell Orchestre] varies its cunningly sequenced, gratifyingly brief instrumental tracks with such old-fashioned amenities as textured melodies, pleasing dynamic shifts, and passages that, if they don't actually r-o-c-k, at least bound down the road in an excited manner.
  2. Magnet
    90
    Capacious, intimate and brimming with both whimsy and tension, Recording A Tape is what classical music might sound like from some advanced alien civilization. [#70, p.86]
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  3. Prefix Magazine
    50
    At its best, Recording a Tape still sounds like little more than the product of a few precocious marching-band dropouts, an empty warehouse, and good intentions.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. kurtt
    9
    I personally find it quite refreshing and I love how the album has a whispy unity that works as a whole. It really has grown on me!!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. SeanT
    9
    very excellent orchestral post rock. easier to listen to in one sitting than godspeed and its nice to see something really deeply musically talented coming from a member of arcade fire. let's just hope he is just as good in Islands… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. coolerstillr.muckfluck
    4
    yeah...not quite. no.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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