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- Summary: The fourth album for the rock band was influenced by Carl Jung.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Stoner Metal, Sludge Metal, Space Rock, French Pop, Guitar Virtuoso
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Feb 23, 2011The results are shufflingly majestic, loaded with blissful truths and, it must be said, startlingly close to perfect.
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Mar 23, 2011For sure, Sabbath, Zeppelin and more obscure bands of the era like Wishbone Ash loom large over the proceedings, but Arbouretum breathes new life into a long-dormant genre with its melodic flair, the freshness of its approach and the tastefulness of its playing-and to call a band whose average song length is six to seven minutes "tasteful" is no faint praise.
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Feb 23, 2011Appropriately for an album called The Gathering, the esthetic Arbouretum achieves feels somewhat monolithic--overarching and whole instead of neurotic and splintered--and in this manner should provide healing properties for a psyche battered around by all the little specifics of daily life.
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Mar 8, 2011Arbouretum brings back that good old fashioned psychedelia to rock music with its fourth album The Gathering.
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Feb 23, 2011The Gathering is weighted in every way, heavy with distortion-crusted guitars, sluggish tempos and an earnest, perhaps even over-earnest, search for meaning.
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Feb 23, 2011Arbouretum deal in an odd blend of folk and heavy rock, these seven tracks trudging along like a deep-sea diver traversing the sea bed in ten-league boots.
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Feb 23, 2011On The Gathering, though, the sonic vista is flattened out, resulting in a dreary, grayscale trudge of an album.