Surrounded
by Richard Buckner
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Sep 3, 2013
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74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    Sep 6, 2013
    60
    It's careful, like well worded advice, and typically careworn, but this ultimately can’t disguise a lack of lyrical spark.
  2. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 4, 2013
    60
    Surrounded as a minor spit-polish improvement on Our Blood is sure to please Buckner’s cultish devotees.
  3. Rolling Stone
    Sep 3, 2013
    60
    The self-produced LP swirls drones and uncharacteristic electronics behind evanescent imagery. That it's hard to grasp just makes it more seductive.
  5. Blurt Magazine
    Sep 4, 2013
    50
    Good as this is, it could be that much better.

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  1. jawwallace
    Nov 15, 2013
    9
    For Chrissakes...he isn't re-issuing "Bloomed", he's releasing new music. And this new music is Buckner--if not at his best--then, giving usFor Chrissakes...he isn't re-issuing "Bloomed", he's releasing new music. And this new music is Buckner--if not at his best--then, giving us his all: urgent, thoughtful, tuneful and evocative.

    I'll take this Buckner any day.

    If it isn't "Since", that's ok. None of us are "Since" anymore. Unless we're still 19...or 23...or 28. Or whenever we first heard the masterpiece.

    If you'd followed him as he has gotten older, this new album is something new: fulsome, tuneful, raspy (which we've come to know} and honest. It is something of a return. But also something new.

    Just enjoy.    … Full Review »
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