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Universal acclaim- based on 165 Ratings
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Positive: 150 out of 165
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Mixed: 11 out of 165
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Negative: 4 out of 165
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Aug 25, 2022It starts and ends strong but the entire middle (half the album or more) is a giant slump.
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Oct 28, 2012
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Aug 27, 2013This is FAR from being as good as Veckatimest. It starts and ends strong but the entire middle (half the album or more) is a giant slump. I don't know what people are thinking these days. I could name hit after hit off of Veck. This one has 1 or 2.
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May 8, 2013
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Nov 30, 2012It's the construction of it all that's so perfect: that the music can follow, this time, but still be what Grizzly Bear are all about.
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Nov 19, 2012Although Veckatimest might be more of an emotionally-driven album, Shields continues to showcase a band that is somehow--as good as they currently are--simply getting better and better, regardless of the location, the circumstances, regardless of the schedules.
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Oct 25, 2012More than anything, Shields feels like a deliberate maturation of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, trading adolescent angst for an older disillusion and heartbreak. The same tension exists between the two, especially in swelling closers "Half Gate" and "Sun in Your Eyes," yet here, they're more intricately expressed and controlled.