- Summary: The second release for the North Carolina indie rock band since they reunited in 2007 is its sixth full-length album.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Math Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Oct 7, 201383What makes Siberia so great is that it thoroughly succeeds on both counts--proving once again that, for Polvo, all those years out of the game are to be measured not in inspiration lost, but wisdom gained.
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Oct 1, 201380A tremendously satisfying and thunderous effort, and their finest work to date.
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Oct 1, 201380Though the songs here would have fit in with the best of their earlier phases, they manage to inject deeper subtleties and emotional crosscurrents than even their best work from the '90s without getting too soft in the process.
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Oct 1, 201370Polvo is still doing what they do best. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.93]
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Oct 9, 201370Picking up where the foursome left off as if the interval between petering out in 1999 and its 2008 reformation hadn’t happened, Polvo rides an eerie sense of continuity that ties Siberia to its bursts of creativity in the ‘90s, with the band still taking seemingly incongruous factors like detuned guitars, Asian-influenced instrumentation, and out-of-step rhythms yet somehow striking on a formula where everything all adds up, now as then.
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Oct 7, 201370The return of wonderfully abstruse Nineties guitar-benders Polvo might not be the splashiest indie-rock comeback (that distinction goes to their Chapel Hill, North Carolina, homeys Superchunk). But it's one of the finest.
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Oct 1, 201360With so many of its songs employing fade-outs, Siberia also has this palpably unplanned feeling, which doesn't always pay off.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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