• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Jun 14, 2019
User Score
5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
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  1. Jun 14, 2019
    8
    Great album that intermixes the more folky sounds with far different experimental sounds. This contrast is what makes the album special, but the order in which the album is constructed does not necessarily support this idea.
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77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Jul 10, 2019
    70
    While these songs drift, smoke-like, through the air with a similar quiet, hushed beauty, there's nothing on that quite matches the majesty of that first collaboration's title-track. ... Nevertheless, there are some moments of sublime and almost magic tenderness here.
  2. Jun 19, 2019
    70
    Calexico and Iron & Wine don't just catch either other on falls – they push each other higher, a rewarding experience and hopefully an argument for not waiting another 15 years for a reunion.
  3. Jun 18, 2019
    80
    The songs feel pared back and polished and just about exactly right, whether in the gospel-swelling idiom of Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam or in the jazzier, more experimental haunts of Calexico. There’s nothing extra, nothing silly, nothing distracting, these songs are as streamlined as an otter in water, slipping through in cool, frictionless purity.