Siberia
by Polvo
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Oct 1, 2013
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81

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Exclaim
    Oct 1, 2013
    60
    With so many of its songs employing fade-outs, Siberia also has this palpably unplanned feeling, which doesn't always pay off.

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  1. lazycomet
    Oct 12, 2013
    9
    I never thought I would be overjoyed celebrating a Polvo album as confident, relaxed, and mature until I heard "Siberia". I was one of theI never thought I would be overjoyed celebrating a Polvo album as confident, relaxed, and mature until I heard "Siberia". I was one of the many underground rock guitar fans high on the addictive adrenaline rushes and breakneck stops and starts of Polvo's best albums (Today's Active Lifestyles/Celebrate the New Dark Age/Exploded Drawing) and thought their best days were past when the original drummer left and sound moved into "Shapes" while not as exhilarating, still offered many surprises, a solid album. The band took ten years off for 'real' life and returned to great life performances and a promising resurrection with "In Prism" that depicted a band beginning to re-arrange the holy puzzle pieces of a revered history into something else something becoming...which has now shown itself to be the next chapter in "Siberia" an always fascinating, beautifully unpredictable guitar album to satisfy the faithful and perhaps inspire the curious to give this singularly brilliant band a choice listen. Not a weak song in the set, "Siberia" matches the band's previous efforts, and trumps them even, in being an approachable adventure still woozy on mystery and shadowy surprises as only the impressionistic guitar theatrics of Polvo can promise and deliver. "Siberia" may be Polvo's most unexpected masterpiece, but a masterpiece it is, stretching far beyond the earthly confines of the math rock label they were never meant to bear, as their sound proves far to soulful to be calculating and science for science's sake, It's sound as beauty and always revelatory in its wonderous new guitar frontiers.… Full Review »