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Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jul 30, 2015
    60
    Cabic is most effective when he's closer to home. [Sep 2015, p.117]
  2. Jul 29, 2015
    60
    The lyrics ring true enough, but not forcefully enough to really resonate with any depth.
  3. 60
    Although 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.
  4. Mojo
    Jul 6, 2015
    60
    Time 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]
  5. Mar 31, 2015
    50
    The 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.
  6. Mar 23, 2015
    50
    The 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.
  7. Mar 23, 2015
    49
    After 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.

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