V
Studio album by
Barn Owl
ReleasedApril 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
Length41:37
LabelThrill Jockey
Barn Owl chronology
Lost in the Glare
(2011)		 V
(2013)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.7/10[1]
Metacritic73/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Blurt[4]
MusicOMH[5]
Pitchfork6.8/10[6]
PopMatters7/10[7]

V is the eighth studio album by American musical duo Barn Owl. It was released on April 16, 2013, by Thrill Jockey.[8]

Critical reception

V was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 73 based on 10 reviews.[2] Aggregator website AnyDecentMusic? gave the release a 6.7 out of 10 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews.[1]

In a review for AllMusic, critic reviewer Fred Thomas wrote: "While the band perfected the sound of an empty, barren desert at night with its previous instrumental offerings, V leans away from the underlying dread and general despair of earlier albums, moving more toward the ominous than the doomed. The gradient of emotional tides on V is wrapped in disintegrating guitar tones, obscuring the swatches of hope, disappointment, loss, and discovery in thin sheets of static and sounds that feel buried shallowly under the ground in the backyard."[3] Michael Toland of Blurt said: "Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti use guitars and electronics to create an audio miasma that leaves a mist on your skin."[4] At Dusted Magazine, Joseph Burdett called V "more intimate and introverted than Ancestral Star or Lost in the Glare."[9]

Accolades

Publications' year-end list appearances for V
Critic/Publication List Rank Ref
The Quietus The Quietus' Top 100 Albums of 2013 84 [10]

Track listing

V track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Void Redux"
  • Evan Caminiti
  • Jon Porras
6:22
2.Untitled
  • Caminiti
  • Porras
5:36
3."Against the Night"
  • Caminiti
  • Porras
4:04
4."Blood Echo"
  • Caminiti
  • Porras
5:23
5."Pacific Isolation"
  • Caminiti
  • Porras
2:40
6."The Opulent Decline"
  • Caminiti
  • Porras
17:32

References

  1. 1 2 "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  3. 1 2 Thomas, Fred. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Toland, Michael. "Blurt Magazine Review". Blurt. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ Cowart, Geoff (April 9, 2013). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ Currin, Grayson (April 22, 2013). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  7. ↑ Bonich, Adam (June 5, 2013). "PopMatters Review". PopMatters. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Listen to Albums From the Haxan Cloak, White Fence, and Barn Owl Via Pitchfork Advance". Pitchfork. April 8, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  9. ↑ Burdett, Joseph. "Dusted Magazine Review". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on April 13, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  10. ↑ Doran, John (December 30, 2013). "Quietus Albums of 2013". The Quietus. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
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