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Dark Eyes
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

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  • Record Label: Glass Note
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Folk
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Full Circle
Cap off kneelin' at the back of the church Feelin' water on your brow With it's' heal and it hurts At first a sharpish pain that returns as a... See the rest of the song lyrics
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Clash Music
    Aug 9, 2013
    80
    Dark Eyes suggests they have the potential to be massive, if they can just work that out.
  2. The Guardian
    Aug 9, 2013
    80
    While on indie-rockier tracks like Judgement it can be offputtingly bloodless, their sound is more often beautiful and atmospheric.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    Aug 9, 2013
    70
    While the music works when it’s slow, sparse and emotional, the band’s debut comes into its own when it steps up the pace.
  4. AllMusic
    Aug 9, 2013
    70
    Formed via a craigslist ad, the band's internal anonymity is hardly relative with regard to its cohesiveness, as each track on the brainy yet intuitive Dark Eyes sounds like the sum of its parts, but there is enough space between those parts to suggest a sort of unspoken agreement to avoid any sort of showboating.
  5. The Observer (UK)
    Aug 9, 2013
    60
    Such drama [as on Full Circle or Unofferable], though, is absent from Dark Eyes' second half, most of which could have been crafted in the 90s and, for all Portielje's efforts, is too sterile to excite.
  6. Q Magazine
    Aug 20, 2013
    60
    At times, there's tantalising echoes of Radiohead at their most accessible alongside more soulful diversions. [Sep 2013, p.104]
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  7. Mojo
    Aug 13, 2013
    60
    Not quite enough to give Win Butler the vapours, but not far off it. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. kpatrick24
    Dec 10, 2014
    10
    Absolutely amazing. I can't get enough of this album, and this is coming from a harsh music critic. I made a metecritic account just to giveAbsolutely amazing. I can't get enough of this album, and this is coming from a harsh music critic. I made a metecritic account just to give this album a 10.… Expand
  2. sunnythe14
    Mar 27, 2014
    9
    Half Moon Run's Debut album is a powerful entrance to a saturated Montreal indie-rock scene. Driven by smart, sexy and powerful lyrics thatHalf Moon Run's Debut album is a powerful entrance to a saturated Montreal indie-rock scene. Driven by smart, sexy and powerful lyrics that dive in the realms of drug abuse, adultery and death, this Canadian band has big things ahead of them.… Collapse

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