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Noah’s Ark proves, again, that the Casady sisters are perhaps at the forefront of the overlabored ‘freak-folk’ scene.
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Under The RadarHowever beguilingly perfect their debut was, Noah's Ark surpasses it in nearly every aspect. [#10, p.105]
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Noah’s Ark is a distant album - one that outgrows a few fast friends made on Le Maison de Mon Reve and depends on those truly willing to listen. It is a record designed to make believers out of its fans, and is certainly not for the faint-spirited or fickle.
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The music is as soothing as a lullaby and as challenging as a modern art exhibit.
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Alternative PressThis smartly sequenced album casts a cumulative spell. [Oct 2005, p.156]
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The sisters show an ability to pull different sounds and shapes together to make something extremely enchanting and really very lovely.
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MojoCocoRosie sound, blissfully, like no one else. [Sep 2005, p.102]
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With Noah’s Ark Coco Rosie have truly come into their own, delivering an eccentric sound so one-of-a-kind it could have come from no world but their own.
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Q MagazineThere's nothing here that's conventional-sounding enough to take... CocoRosie beyond cult status, just shard after shard of fractured melody that burrows deep into the subconscious. [Oct 2005, p.121]
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UncutAdds extra confidence and clarity to the same basic ingredients. [Oct 2005, p.107]
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A disappointment mostly in comparison to the seemingly out-of-nowhere brilliance of La Maison de Mon Reve, Noah's Ark might fail to charm those not already bewitched by that album, but it won't break the spell for devoted fans.
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Noah's Ark is not an end-to-end stunner. But there are bright spots throughout, and the sisters display a consistent penchant for deviating from standard folk and twee pop lyrical imagery.
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Noah's Ark retrenches CocoRosie in their signature sound and gives us a glimpse of their indubitably eccentric future.
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FilterIt is the sisters' old-timey voices that capture and carry the beautiful eeriness of these minimalist songs. [#17, p.103]
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Paste MagazineDisconcerting and intensely beautiful. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.146]
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MagnetLa Maison offers a glimpse into the Casadys' strange, spooky world; Noah's Ark shows them taking tentative, often intriguing steps outside of it. [#69, p.91]
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Your enjoyment of this album will depend on how open you are to cats meowing, telephone rings, and French spoken-word passages weaving in and out of the songs.
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Overall it's rather tough to get a grip on what they're getting at.
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New Musical Express (NME)For all there is to grind your teeth and hate about CocoRosie, there's much to love. [8 Oct 2005, p.45]
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The pair overextend themselves often enough to appear to be posturing, costing them some of their charm.
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So knowingly arty it could be sponsored by the Saatchi gallery, it irritates more than it charms.
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One of the most annoying records you're liable to remember.
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CocoRosie are clearly talented when they keep things focused; fact is, though, that Noah’s Ark is so steeped in its own random, garbled universe that it makes for a frustrating, unrewarding listen.
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SpinThey make each shimmer of postnatal whimsy seem like an eternal gulag of the spotless mind. [Sep 2005, p.109]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 29
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Mixed: 3 out of 29
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Negative: 4 out of 29
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JeremyFApr 18, 2007
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AndyHApr 16, 2007People are too stupid to realize how good this is.
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SebastianIFeb 26, 2006