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Jul 13, 2012Between the steady maturation displayed by those ensuing color-coded works and the quantity of songs here, both undeniably infectious and innovative, many more fans are bound to embark on the Georgians' strange, strange ride.
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Alternative PressJul 17, 2012Most songs keep to a more humble pace, unfurling slowly and often with surprising beauty. [Aug 2012, p.86]
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Aug 9, 2012Perfect.
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Jul 13, 2012This nearly flawless collection is simply the next step in the Baroness saga, and it's a beautiful one.
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Jul 25, 2012Yellow & Green documents the evolution of Baroness from great metal band to great band.
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Jul 17, 2012The band has crafted something surprising: a poignant, reflective hard-rock album that straddles the divide between '70s classic rock ambition and '90s alt-rock theatrics.
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Jul 13, 2012Baroness possesses an acute sense of melody, unpredictable songwriting, and vision for its work. Yellow & Green encapsulates all of those things, and, consequently, it's one of the year's most engaging metal albums.
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Aug 15, 2012The band resorts to an 18-set record simply because everything is indisputably necessary and furthermore, solid gold.
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Jul 13, 2012Throughout this often incoherent hodgepodge of tunes, Baroness has mostly abandoned the contrast that made its previous records work so well.
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Jul 17, 2012The result is flat and congealed, lacking danger.
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Kerrang!Aug 1, 2012They deliver 18 tracks of timeless, gimmick-free and inventive rock. [14 Jul 2012, p.52]
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Jul 16, 2012Their third album totaling 75 minutes and spread, slightly unnecessarily, over two CDs, it reaches unexpected new heights in the pantheon of 'metal bands who mellowed out'.
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Jul 26, 2012The good does far outweigh the bad, and had this album been a bit more condensed, it would have been one of my favorites this year.
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Aug 9, 2012You can't deny how interesting some of these dynamic post-rock explorations are.
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Jul 18, 2012Yellow & Green casts off the shackles of expectation while simultaneously taking a measured step in the direction of accessibility.
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Jul 18, 2012Each disc stands on its own as a powerful document; together, they genuinely earn the word "epic.
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Jul 16, 2012Sure it comes with its imperfections, but it's this humanity that makes music so life affirming. Like all great rock bands that have gone before them-allow Baroness the opportunity to change your life. They just might succeed in doing so.
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Q MagazineJul 27, 2012It's the their best album yet. [Aug 2012, p.102]
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Jul 24, 2012This is an album of atmosphere, huge highs, crushing lows, melodies, crescendos and something entirely new that still sounds natural. Stunning.
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Jul 17, 2012A thrilling hard-rock epic.
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Jul 16, 2012On Yellow & Green, he [John Baizley] finds the confines of metal itself too limiting; so Baroness dive, dive, dive, dive into '90s commercial alternative harder than a sackful of Yucks and come out smarter and weirder and better than any metal band this year.
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Jul 17, 2012There's an abundance of good ideas here, all of them fearlessly pursued. Next time, the band just needs to hire an editor.
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Aug 3, 2012To the wider rock world, Yellow/Green deserves to be regarded as a left of field classic, whilst to the metalheads who were perfectly content with the Baroness sound as it was, the record may seem something of a disappointment, its straightforward and melodic approach to songwriting the antithesis of the labyrinthine complexities and huge riffs of old.
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Jul 23, 2012What is perhaps this record's greatest strength: Baroness has crafted an epic collection of heavy music with two distinct spheres: the hard-hitting paranoia of Yellow, and the more organic, earthiness of Green.
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UncutJul 17, 2012Brawny, anthemic hard-rock chug remains their backbone. [Aug 2012, p.69]
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Aug 16, 2012Yellow & Green is an ambitious sprawl of music from a band willing to reinvent themselves with each album.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 40
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Mixed: 5 out of 40
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Negative: 2 out of 40
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Jul 17, 2012I love Red album and Blue record. New stuff is different, but as good as older records. Best songs: Take my bones away, Psalms Alive, The Line Between
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Jul 22, 2012
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Jul 17, 2012