★★★★★
CocoRosie is forever waiting for its moment to arrive. The path has been riddled with caustic receptions by mainstream critics and everyday bloggers, whose negative judgments of sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady have included everything from misappropriating race to "terrible" looks and voices. When the act signed to Sub Pop for 2010's Grey Oceans, the mean-spirited reactions from site commenters overshadowed the positive remarks in quantity and fervor...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-07
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Scary Tales Once upon a time, a fairy tale had a bit of bite. Although we've got our Sookies and other alternative versions of nice sprites, for the most part, the wicked little pixies of the grim Grimm days have been pasted over by Disney princesses. But perhaps Game of Thrones really heralds the return of the old-fashioned magical trickster...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
Despite what their album titles would have you believe, CocoRosie have never been one for telling stories--or at least not the cohesive, plot-driven stories Stephen King and Dan Brown would have us believe is the mark of a true narrative. But Tales Of A Grass Widow is the closest they've come yet: part childhood bedtime story/part warning tale of mortality. Sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady have shown on previous albums that they have a way with words...
- www.cmj.com
2013-05-31
★★★★★
CocoRosie have impressive staying power for a band that has frequently incorporated repellence into its style, tempering their perversity with enough weird beauty to keep us on the hook. On 2004 debut La maison de mon rêve, sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady meowed warped endearments over freak folk guitars and hip-hop beats...
- pitchfork.com
2013-05-29
★★★★★
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by JEAN-LUC MARSH
What is it about CocoRosie that immediately inspires snickers and tirades deriding the duo? Perhaps the answer lies in the chafing vocals and insipid lyrics of the Casady sisters, or cover artwork so hilariously absurd that it provokes the question of why any record label would allow it to be released...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-05-29
★★★★★
Deep down, CocoRosie take pride in pissing people off. Why else paint on fake mustaches in your publicity photos? Why else draw humping unicorns on your album cover? Why else blend opera with reggae and musique concrete? Why else sing in a grating, faux-Icelandic coo? Ever since their debut full-length, 2004's La maison de mon rêve, the Casady sisters have been on a quest--to craft the Citizen Kane of musical stupidity. Tales of a Grasswidow, their fifth LP, comes pretty damn close...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-05-29
★★★★★
Sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady have made a career out of walking the tightrope between art-house inspiration (2005's Noah's Ark) and teeth-grating pretentiousness (2007's The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn). As ever, their blend of reggae, opera and folk influences sounds unique, thanks in large part to Bianca's extraordinary vocals: at times childlike, an instant later carrying the emotional heft of Billie Holiday, never more so than on the moving Child Bride...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-05-26
★★★★★
The Casady sisters are back to divide opinion and elicit a wide range of facial expressions with their first album since 2010's Grey Oceans, Tales of a GrassWidow. Firstly, let's address most critics' main gripe with CocoRosie and talk about the vocals. They're odd and wildly changeable; one minute toddler, the next shrill belter, the next angelic chorister...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
Don't you just love it when albums start with a song you have to play over and over before advancing further? The childlike lullaby refrain of "Welcome to the afterlife" is the first thing you'll hear on CocoRosie's fifth studio set, and its haunting, music-box chimes set the bar high. Sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady trade off their contrasting delicate and acerbic vocal styles as the songs themselves, laced with pump-organ, piano and synth stabs, seem to do battle with the digital percussion...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-05-24
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