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Wye OakCivilian79 Based on 13 reviews 2011 Ranking: #97 / 498
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REVIEWS
Civilian continues the progress made by 2009’s excellent The Knot, bringing Wye Oak’s astral drone to blossom on a richer, fuller, and more extroverted bouquet of luminous melodies.
Wye Oak have in Civilian mastered the trade of a range of subgenres - from post-rock to dream pop - and brought them together in an album, journey and experience that captivates from start to finish.
Wasner and Stack have taken to sanding the edges between quiet and loud, gentle and rough, hard and soft, clean and dirty. From there they've crafted their best LP yet.
The band make great songs that make a true spectacle of the clashing of the quaint and the destructive.
Civilian packs a more immediate punch, and hits you with southpaw jabs in the middle of songs, shifting once you’ve bedded down.
Civilian has just enough personality to stop it being completely pedestrian.
Spare songwriting and unmemorable lyrics make Civilian a wearying listen if played too often or too long.
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RATINGS
| 100 | A.V. Club |
| 82 | Paste |
| 80 | AllMusic |
| 80 | musicOMH |
| 80 | Spin |
| 79 | Pitchfork |
| 78 | Beats Per Minute |
| 70 | Consequence of Sound |
| 70 | No Ripcord |
| 70 | PopMatters |
| 69 | Coke Machine Glow [src ] |
| 60 | Drowned in Sound |
| 60 | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| # 1 - | A.V. Club |
| # 8 - | MAGNET |
| # 18 - | Paste |
| # 40 - | Pazz and Jop |
| # 50 - | PopMatters |
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