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Mar 23, 2015Complete Strangers is one of those collections where over the course of several listens each song enjoys time as being considered the highpoint of the album only for another track to supplant it soon after. Whisper it, but Vetiver may have just made one of the albums of the year.
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Apr 28, 2015It’s nuanced, subtle and magnetically beautiful.
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UncutMar 30, 2015The record is as intimate and low-key as an evening home with friends. [May 2015, p.84]
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Mar 23, 2015Despite the synths that peek out from behind Cabic’s introspective ruminations, Vetiver’s sixth LP fits within this framework. Complete Strangers is a subtle album that feels immediately familiar, yet reveals fresh and unexpected elements with each new listen.
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Mar 24, 2015Mercurial moods aside, it's a beautifully produced record and almost addictive with the allure of its sublime tones, percussive arrangements that draw you in and an attractive coil of guitar phrasings.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015Cabic is most effective when he's closer to home. [Sep 2015, p.117]
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Jul 29, 2015The lyrics ring true enough, but not forcefully enough to really resonate with any depth.
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Jul 24, 2015Although an improvement on 2011’s The Errant Charm, this finds Vetiver mainman Andy Cabic struggling to impose greater definition on his sun-bleached West Coast throwback style.
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MojoJul 6, 2015Time Flies is a similarly lovely creation, but with this surface gloss also comes a lack of depth and a slight cheesiness to the whole affair. [Aug 2015, p.94]
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Mar 31, 2015The lack of substance, coupled with an occasionally overwhelming “lite-ness” that veers dangerously close to easy-listening, makes Complete Strangers a less than solid effort.
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Mar 23, 2015The duo's desire to strip the music of all energy leaves the songs limp, unable to make an impression in an age when songs are screaming for attention everywhere you turn.
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Mar 23, 2015After six albums, Cabic has yet to build a discernible and discrete identity for this band. It remains the ongoing also-ran from a loose freak-folk confederation that’s splintered in a dozen surprising ways.