Siberia
by Polvo
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Oct 1, 2013
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  1. lazycomet
    Oct 12, 2013
    9
    I never thought I would be overjoyed celebrating a Polvo album as confident, relaxed, and mature until I heard "Siberia". I was one of the many underground rock guitar fans high on the addictive adrenaline rushes and breakneck stops and starts of Polvo's best albums (Today's Active Lifestyles/Celebrate the New Dark Age/Exploded Drawing) and thought their best days were past when theI never thought I would be overjoyed celebrating a Polvo album as confident, relaxed, and mature until I heard "Siberia". I was one of the many underground rock guitar fans high on the addictive adrenaline rushes and breakneck stops and starts of Polvo's best albums (Today's Active Lifestyles/Celebrate the New Dark Age/Exploded Drawing) and thought their best days were past when the original drummer left and sound moved into "Shapes" while not as exhilarating, still offered many surprises, a solid album. The band took ten years off for 'real' life and returned to great life performances and a promising resurrection with "In Prism" that depicted a band beginning to re-arrange the holy puzzle pieces of a revered history into something else something becoming...which has now shown itself to be the next chapter in "Siberia" an always fascinating, beautifully unpredictable guitar album to satisfy the faithful and perhaps inspire the curious to give this singularly brilliant band a choice listen. Not a weak song in the set, "Siberia" matches the band's previous efforts, and trumps them even, in being an approachable adventure still woozy on mystery and shadowy surprises as only the impressionistic guitar theatrics of Polvo can promise and deliver. "Siberia" may be Polvo's most unexpected masterpiece, but a masterpiece it is, stretching far beyond the earthly confines of the math rock label they were never meant to bear, as their sound proves far to soulful to be calculating and science for science's sake, It's sound as beauty and always revelatory in its wonderous new guitar frontiers.… Expand

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Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
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  1. The Wire
    Dec 10, 2013
    80
    In truth, every twist and turn, every tempo change on Siberia is evidence of the group's unabated thirst for adventure. [Oct 2013, p.55]
  2. Magnet
    Oct 18, 2013
    95
    Siberia recaptures the exciting invention and fire of a lost album recorded between Today's Active Lifestyles and Exploded Drawing without a hint of any decade but the one we now sit in, plus whatever is going to musically transpire in the future. [No. 103, p.58]
  3. Blurt Magazine
    Oct 17, 2013
    80
    Ambitious and inviting, Siberia puts Polvo in a more accessible place while remaining faithful to its artistic vision.
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