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May 28, 2013Tales of a GrassWidow may not be as overtly challenging as Grey Oceans, but it offers some of CocoRosie's most focused, accomplished songs yet.
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May 29, 2013It's all remarkably pleasant for a CocoRosie album--you leave it not with the feeling of having weathered an intriguing, baffling ordeal, but of having listened to something recognizable as an album.
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Jun 6, 2013Tales of a GrassWidow is a more coherent album than the clunkily political Shaking the Habitual, the critically acclaimed new release from the Knife.
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UncutMay 23, 2013Aside from the odd burst of medieval flute, their fifth album is unlikely to scare the horses, striking a neat balance of darkly powerful and whimsical. [Jun 2013, p.70]
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MojoMay 23, 2013Those all curious about CocoRosie should begin here. [Jun 2013, p.88]
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Q MagazineMay 23, 2013The Casadys' knack for sifting vivid, dreamy songs out of harrowing subject matter is no less potent here. [Jun 2013, p.96]
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May 24, 2013Tales Of A Grass Widow won’t alter opinions; if anything it’ll cement them. But for those who enjoy CocoRosie, album number five is every bit as intriguing and fulfilling as they’d hope.
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May 23, 2013Yes, sometimes it sounds like a circus rave in a toybox, and it's not what you would call relaxing. But it's uplifting, triumphant and inquisitive.
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May 29, 2013The eleven tracks show little shift in the sisters’ sound, which remains as beguiling--or as infuriating--as ever.
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May 28, 2013There’s a genuinely evocative album buried under the obnoxiousness.
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May 29, 2013The Casady sisters spin some of their most accessible tracks in years.
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May 23, 2013It is a bewitching, beautiful album, with no two songs alike.
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May 28, 2013CocoRosie certainly revel in their unorthodoxy but this doesn’t always make for enjoyable listening; perhaps if their Tales Of A Grasswidow knew how to breathe, their macabre hymns might pack a little more pluck.
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May 28, 2013Too much of the material on their fifth album is content to merely sit in the background, not something from which they usually suffer.
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May 24, 2013Tales of a Grasswidow is easily CocoRosie's most satisfying, fully realised work so far.
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May 28, 2013CocoRosie [is] squat, inventively, somewhere between Fever Ray and Joanna Newsom.
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May 28, 2013The eleven tracks on the album, while almost uniformly unpleasant, all share an underlying moroseness sewn together by Bianca Casady’s unnerving vocals.
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May 30, 2013They make albums that make you squint and stare at the floor and convince yourself you like it, maybe. And somehow, you’ll find yourself listening until you’re sure you do.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 2 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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May 30, 2013
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Jul 12, 2013