Nightingale Floors
by Rogue Wave
  • Record Label: Vagrant
  • Release Date: Jun 4, 2013
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    Dec 16, 2013
    60
    A few more like ‘College’ and ‘Figured It Out’, with their emotional weight and memorable choruses, and they’d be onto something.
  2. Blurt Magazine
    Aug 27, 2013
    60
    The impotence of railing against it is a theme running through a lot of the record, and in the case of Nightingale Floors, coming to terms with the past has freed Rogue Wave to turn in what might be their finest work.
  3. Consequence
    Jun 5, 2013
    60
    It’s by no means Rogue Wave’s seminal work, but it manages to come off as an honest and hard-earned statement from a band that’s been dealt more than their fair shares of blows these past few years.
  5. PopMatters
    Jun 6, 2013
    40
    After a troubling and bizarre fourth LP, Permalight, for Bushfire, the band returns, and not successfully, to these college radio roots, the power of the small idea, on their latest LP, Nightingale Floors.

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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. aguila9
    Nov 3, 2013
    9
    This is indie rock at it's finest from a band incapable of making a bad record.
    Amazingly, this is a band who time after time beats anything    This is indie rock at it's finest from a band incapable of making a bad record.
    Amazingly, this is a band who time after time beats anything made by the likes of The Shins in terms of melody, musicianship, and production BUT somehow, somewhere, the powers that be decided that one band had to be a media darling no matter what. It's like BETA vs vhs, the media championed the lesser option and the masses swallowed it whole.

    The new RW continues with those subtle hooks and that grow into grandeur with each listen. Deceptively Lo-Fi, behind every song is a grand arrangement from a band that doesn't know the meaning a "filler" and know that every note counts.    … Full Review »
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