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71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

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  • Summary: Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver), Jon Mueller, Chris Rosenau, Jim Schoenecker, Daniel Spack, and Thomas Wincek of Collections of Colonies of Bees join up to release their debut together as Volcano Choir.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. No Ripcord
    90
    When it closes with the eerie, smoky gospel influenced Youlagy, you know it's fantastic and you know you've found the most breathtakingly beautiful album this year.
  2. Pitchfork
    83
    Despite the looseness and the grab-bag approach, the best of the songs on Unmap feel right as rain, like these weird mash-ups were there all along, just waiting to be discovered.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Unmap transcends such mood geometrics thanks to Vernon's mostly wordless incantations. [Oct 2009, p.99]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. ChristianP.
    9
    Very exciting and captivating stuff.
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  2. Belmsher
    6
    It's quite messy for myself to comment this album because while it has, in my opinion, some of the best tracks of the entire Vernon's career (bow down to the brilliance of Island, IS), there are also some eerie fillers which, if had been excluded, would have made Unmap a brilliant EP instead of a bearable album leaving a sense of slow-paced frustration.… Expand
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  3. RyanJ.
    5
    Pretty overrated, boring, only a few songs are good. But the songs that are good are REALLY GOOD.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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