Ruins
by Grouper
  • Record Label: Kranky
  • Release Date: Oct 31, 2014
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 43
  3. Negative: 2 out of 43
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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Uncut
    Dec 4, 2014
    60
    Depending on your mood or generosity, these are either indulgently doleful or movingly ascetic in their dutiful repetitions--worth investigating either way. [Jan 2015, p.71]
  2. The Wire
    Dec 2, 2014
    80
    It's an almost-pitch-perfect progression of eight tracks across 39 minutes. [Oct 2014, p.54]
  3. Dusted Magazine
    Nov 25, 2014
    80
    It’s somewhere between 2011’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill and, say, Peter Jefferies’s Last Great Challenge For a Dull World; there are discernible melodies here, but above them is an overwhelming sense of loss, and the musical chops to channel it.
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