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The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
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84 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 33 Critics What's this?

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 131 Ratings

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  • Summary: 'Crane Wife' marks the literate, Colin Meloy-led band's major label debut.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    100
    The band's most ambitious, mind-blowing, and best record yet.
  2. musicOMH.com
    100
    Their best album to date.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    Sometimes you wish Meloy would just put away his studied thesp-schlock and say, "Man, I'm sick of singing about Victorian peasants. I got dumped once. I want to write about that..." [27 Jan 2007, p.31]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 82 out of 89
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 89
  3. Negative: 3 out of 89
  1. BMartin
    10
    A triumph!
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  2. DanB.
    5
    I quite liked most of their first three albums but here something's off, to my ear. Not sure what. It's just... very boring, to me, and a few of the songs actually were really grating. Oh well.… Expand
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  3. NONo
    0
    Somethings terribly wrong... how can a crap band like this get raved reviews?
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