• Record Label: Leaf
  • Release Date: Apr 5, 2005
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Darkness at Noon is the most exciting record to be put out this semester.
  2. What is remarkable is the way that they have made a recording that can remain entertaining and engaging, resist becoming background, even while leaving you with the nagging sense that it was about nothing but the act of musical reference itself.
  3. Darkness at Noon thrives on pushing and pulling the listener from emotional peak to valley.
  4. You'll feel lost and totally submerged in a sublime experience that's timeless, exciting and free from boundaries.
  5. The Wire
    80
    Darkness At Noon works because it doggedly pursues its convictions through to a satisfying conclusion and in doing so creates its own kind of offbeat logic. [#254, p.53]
  6. Though Barnes and company fail to bring this bewildering array of streams into confluence, the album contains enough flashes of such melodic invention and daredevil instrumentation that armchair travelers can't help but be drawn to the group's exotic scrapbook.
  7. Q Magazine
    70
    An absorbing, exuberant flourish of outwardly incompatible genres. [Apr 2005, p.122]
User Score
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No user score yet- Awaiting 2 more ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. TomasA
    Jan 18, 2006
    8
    Great album with a certain mood