The Tarnished Gold
by Beachwood Sparks
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Jun 26, 2012
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
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  1. Q Magazine
    Oct 12, 2012
    60
    Such a nuanced take on pop's paisley-coloured past won't be to everyone's taste, but devotees will be left dizzy. [Jul 2012, p.95]
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  2. Mojo
    Jul 19, 2012
    60
    The stylistic shifts mean The Tarnished Gold doesn't hang together--it lacks the luster of real gold. [Aug 2012, p.85]
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  3. Consequence
    Jul 3, 2012
    60
    The key word for this album is pretty.
  5. The Observer (UK)
    Jun 25, 2012
    60
    The best bits of The Tarnished Gold hark further back to the Byrds for their sense of breezy acceptance.
  6. Slant Magazine
    Jun 25, 2012
    60
    The Tarnished Gold is a consistently lovely, unassuming set. But that same lackadaisical tone plays against Beachwood Sparks: There's nothing on the album that the band hadn't already done a decade ago.
  7. Prefix Magazine
    Jun 27, 2012
    50
    The Tarnished Gold is often nebulous and obtuse, trading in atmospherics more than the countrified terra firma of the band's past.
  8. Austin Chronicle
    Jul 19, 2012
    40
    On Tarnished Gold, the Beachwood Sparks' reunion drowns in a bog of bad production and lesser material. Even when the Seventies Laurel Canyon sound turns heavier psychedelic ("Sparks Fly Again") nothing catches fire under the LP's soggy sound.

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