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- Summary: The third album for the Brooklyn-based indie-rock band.
- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 36
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Mixed: 4 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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Veckatimest offers more than just an inventive exercise in collage: It’s like hearing the past few centuries of music playing in symphony, which sounds--thrillingly and reassuringly--like the future.
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Really, the only fault of this record is that its most arrestingly beautiful minute is its final one: everything that comes before, however brilliant it is at the time, pales once that choir swells, just for a few too-fleeting seconds.
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Ambitious yet restrained, elegant yet exciting, Veckatimest is an endlessly-rewarding album which seems destined to vie with Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion for the title of the year's best.
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This back and forth continues throughout the album and makes for a satisfying mix of clarity and perplexity. In the indie rock game, Grizzly Bear’s expansive scope is unmatched.
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Even as they feature orchestras, women's choirs, and Beach House singer Victoria Legrand on Veckatimest, the album is still an intimate, ascetic affair.
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For those patient enough to wait for this record to relinquish its quiet delights, the treasures waiting to be discovered it are rich indeed.
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Their skilled playing remains modest enough, but on this subtler and more pretentious material, the skills predominate, and just in case they don't, let's add a string quartet here and real choirboys there.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 58
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Mixed: 3 out of 58
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Negative: 6 out of 58
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Nov 5, 2010
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DaveGMay 29, 2009
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garysJul 30, 2009
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JamesB.May 27, 2009
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P.BJul 10, 2009Better with every listening.
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RyanB.May 26, 2009
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JimCMay 30, 2009
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