Beet, Maize & Corn
by High Llamas
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 4 out of 11

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  1. Jon-ErickS
    Jan 25, 2005
    10
    the album has a rich rightness to its melodies, arrangements, and instrumentation that could eventually place it in some cannon that might include cole porter and mccartney/wilson. get ready for the 2051 tribute album.
  2. MattyM
    Apr 8, 2004
    9
    This is way up there with their best -more compelling than Buzzlebee & a necessary accessory for budding hipsters attempting to use their record collections to get informed indie-girls into the sack.
  3. ElizabethR
    Jan 17, 2004
    10
    Gorgeous and warm, it puts me in a happy mellow mood. Just buy it and see for yourself!
  4. brentk
    Nov 27, 2003
    10
    This is an outstanding album.Hawaii was good, but this album is poignant and superbly crafted,and with humour(Eg Calloway) Moments of pure genius abound.This guy is up in a statosphere of his own.Wilson and Baccharach had their day.Sean O'Hagan is simply miles ahead of anybody.
  5. FreddyFender
    Nov 26, 2003
    10
    Fuck that GENX wanker from ROLLING STONE! Tell him to go buy "50 Cents" new album and stop spewing his un-informed bullshit on the net. This album is a masterpiece. If you don't understand, then listen to Britney Spears and go fuck yourself.
  6. EchoDenver
    Nov 10, 2003
    9
    Fans of Low, Stereolab, Tindersticks, Beach Boys, and such will find this to be a quite enjoyable record. Fresh and familiar simultaneously . . . . . .
  7. stingray
    Nov 10, 2003
    10
    Beautiful.

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Launch.com
    80
    The album never shifts into angular or faster textures but maintains its overall coasting level with clarity, precision and charm.
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  2. Mojo
    100
    Less exotic perhaps than the West Coast, Brazilian, German and Franco-Italian musical forays of the past, but even more remarkably musical, intriguingly textured and affecting. [Nov 2003, p.130]
  3. The A.V. Club
    80
    Beet, Maize & Corn is The High Llamas' best since 1996's frothy, visionary Hawaii, and it mirrors that record's adherence to an emotional arc built of fragments, sketches, and vamps.
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