★★★★★
From the moment the first notes of the first track "Half Moon" play, you know that this is a different Blind Pilot. Where their brilliant debut album 3 Rounds and a Sound was a sparse, intimate record, We Are the Tide is more mature and just flat-out better."Keep You Right" has the band reaching out for something more...
- www.ink19.com
2012-03-12
★★★★★
In a time where much indie folk--from Fleet Foxes to Tallest Man on Earth to even Bon Iver--coats itself in the settled dust and sepia tones of nostalgia, Blind Pilot has a refreshingly clean, modern sound. Following the success of Three Rounds and a Sound, the then-duo of Israel Nebeker and Ryan Dobrowski expanded into a full-fledged band and recorded their follow-up We Are the Tide...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-09-19
★★★★★
Sound: Perpetuating the stereotype that every indie-rock band has to come from the Pacific Northwest, Blind Pilot is a duet out of Portland, Oregon. In true indie-rock fashion, their sound is heavily based in a slow melodic acoustic-folk sound. When I first heard them I thought they reminded my a lot of how a poppier version of Bright Eyes would sound. But if you listen to the record that is actually a very big compliment...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-12-13
★★★★★
Skimming through thousands of press releases, one sheets, and publicity e-mails packed with burnished adjectives strung together five or six abreast seems to have endowed me with the ability to plop a given band down on the spectrum of marketability after reading only a few clippings of their press. Doubtless, you too are well practiced at this form of categorization...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2009-09-19
★★★★★
Showcasing influences that sound somewhere in between The Shins, Iron & Wine and Neutral Milk Hotel, Blind Pilot's music comes off as much folksy, as it does poppy. Sensibilities as these go a long way in a musical spectrum that reaches for anything gently soothing. And singer/guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski's debut, 3 Rounds and a Sound, employs all of the aforesaid in solid style...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
I absolutely love Beck's Sea Change. Its intimate, acoustic sound projects his broken heart in ways that I have rarely heard. The duo Blind Pilot must have been taking notes because that is exactly how I felt listening to their debut 3 Rounds and a Sound."Things I Cannot Recall" is one of the best examples of the note-taking-gone-right with the line "All the photos came out lonely/ But we were not alone...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
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