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  • Summary: This is the 11th full-length studio release for the Philadelphia psychedelic rock band.
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  • Record Label: Fire Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Space Rock
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
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  1. The Wire
    Aug 8, 2017
    80
    All of the six songs feel epic in structure, each gradually building from a subtle breeze into a fiery windstorm as Michael and John Gibbons's sustained guitar mantras bleed into each other. [May 2017, p.44]
  2. Apr 4, 2017
    80
    Beneath the noisy sludge and distorted mire of these six tracks there lives a gorgeous, golden majesty.
  3. Apr 4, 2017
    80
    Bardo Pond isn’t so much about evolutionary change as the recurrent invocation of altered states via sound.
  4. Apr 4, 2017
    70
    Under the Pines is emotionally heavy, and its best moments manage to find warmth and comfort in crippling depression.
  5. Magnet
    Apr 14, 2017
    70
    The album is the reliable mix of shorter, inverted blues-rock dirges and extended workouts one has to come to expect from this well-oiled machine. [No. 141, p.53]
  6. Uncut
    Apr 4, 2017
    70
    Their 10th album in 25 years underlines their skill at combining heavy guitar solos with gauzy pop melodies and blizzards of noise. [Apr 2017, p.25]
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