Offerings

Typhoon - Offerings
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2018 Ratings: #86 / 890
User Score
Based on 208 ratings
2018 Rank: #293
Liked by 6 people
January 12, 2018 / Release Date
LP / Format
Indie Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
The 405

In music, bigger is, more often than not, not better. Offerings stands as the rare overtly grand Indie Rock undertaking that doesn't buckle under its ambition. Typhoon have delivered with aplomb.

86
GIGsoup

You should give 'Offerings' its time in the sun. You should give it your full attention, and take it as an experience. It won’t be perfect for every moment, but it will be for the right moment.

80
Sputnikmusic

Offerings, in its darkest moments, dissolves into a dreamscape. The record at times adopts that lo-fi sheen, where the relationship between sonic palette and subject matter grows stronger. It creates a place for the protagonist to disappear into, while the audience is confronted with the bitter truth -- like studying the ghost of a smile on a dead man’s face.

80
The Skinny

Offerings is a sprawling, ambitious record; asking a lot of its listeners but offering plenty in return for their patience.

80
God Is in the TV

This is a brave, spectacularly bleak record, and is all the better for it.

80
Spill Magazine

Within Offerings, Typhoon displays some of their most exceptional work to date. The entire album is richly detailed both in musical arrangement and lyrical composition. With stunning subtlety and an emotionally-investing story, Offerings is such a brilliant album that is almost impossible not to re-listen.

75
Spectrum Culture

Offerings takes a little patience, but it’s finally rewarding when its charms come into sharper focus.

CheapandLethal
100

Amazing

85

Sounds like a mellow Arcade Fire (Funeral era) mixed with Devotchka

zachthesnack
72

This record really surprised me with how absolutely massive it is. The influence of Phil Elverum on the vocal style of their lead singer is more than evident. It's like if Mount Eerie were to make Post-rock influenced Alt Rock record. Its full of stunning production and thrilling experimental ideas. There are so many cool moments on this record, really a pleasant surprise.

Favs: Ariadne, Beachtowel, Sleep, Empiricist, Bergeron, Coverings

Least Fav: Mansion

ImEnvaze
92

This album is a movement starting with the early stages of memory loss due to age, dementia, Alzheimer's., etc. Lead singer Kyle Morton takes us through a gorgeous process story culminating in the ultimate loss of memory retention and death. The ladder half of the final track, sleep, celebrates the end of life process surrounded by those you love the most cheering and singing. Not every tack on here is as strong as the last so as much as I would love to give this a solid 100 it loses some ... read more

Rambun_ctious
100

This album compliments itself through each transition in songs and parts. I love typhoons work and this album is no exception, obviously. I hope this magic prevails throughout the years of their future career.

86

Rec Tracks:
Empiricist; Rorschach; Remember

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Track List

1Wake
3:49
100
2Rorschach
4:16
100
3Empiricist
8:35
100
4Algernon
4:18
100
5Unusual
6:17
100
6Beachtowel
3:22
100
7Remember
4:29
100
8Mansion
0:54
100
9Coverings
3:48
100
10Chiaroscuro
3:09
100
11Darker
3:54
100
12Bergeron
2:49
100
13Ariadne
5:52
100
14Sleep
12:49
100
Total Length: 1 hour, 8 minutes

Year End Lists

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Added on: January 10, 2018