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The Orchard

Ra Ra Riot

The Orchard

Second album of indie rock / chamber pop from the NY band

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6.1

Label
Barsuk
UK Release date
16/05/2011
US Release date
24/08/2010
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  1. 10.0 |   Subba Cultcha

    [A] truly lovely album ... steeped in imagery of water and death
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s hard to pick a standout track when the quality is as high as it is here
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  3. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Ra Ra Riot’s focus on overall listenability may have produced an album lacking some of the excitement found on their first record. While The Orchard is certainly a pretty record, it’s not always the most thrilling
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  4. 7.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Whatever depth is lacking, Ra Ra Riot have nevertheless grown more distinctive and accomplished this time around, carving out a clear niche
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  5. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    A strange and delightful mix of dreamy swooning and sweat-soaked fist pumping
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  6. 6.0 |   Spin

    They deliver the sort of mid-tempo, orch-pop fussiness that they'd been praised for transcending
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  7. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There's so much promise here. But something seems to have veered from the right path, slightly
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  8. 6.0 |   The Fly

    Occasionally, the songs are over-burdened by the multitude of instruments, but this is still a blissful and breezy album of sumptuous summer sensations
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  9. 6.0 |   BBC

    Accomplished and impressive as it is, The Orchard equally often feels studied, its core parts fussed over at the expense of the lyrical and melodic shapes needed to energise them
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  10. 5.7 |   Pitchfork

    Pushes their stylistic range at the cost of hooks
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  11. 5.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    The main problem with this album is its lack of great songs to support their style
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  12. 5.0 |   Under The Radar

    Too much of the album...is immediately forgotten
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  13. 5.0 |   Blurt

    The band hasn't completely tumbled off the cliff, merely lost its footing a bit
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  14. 5.0 |   musicOMH

    Disappointingly, frustratingly ephemeral collection
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  15. 4.0 |   Q

    All told this is a backwards step. Print edition only

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