★★★★★
With Complete Strangers, Vetiver, essentially now a solo vehicle for singer/songwriter Andy Cabic, complete the transition from being one of the prime movers associated with the unfortunately named "freak folk" movement of the early '00s to the Americana-flecked, contemporary indie-pop act that their 2009 Sub Pop debut, Tight Knit, suggested they were heading towards...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-04-02
★★★★★
Something clicked for me upon reading that Vetiver's Andy Cabic also does soundtrack work. The San Francisco-based singer-songwriter's textured, melodic music and warmly confiding voice have a way of slipping into the background. Normally I would say that being able to ignore someone's music is a bad thing, but with Vetiver, it's an interesting phenomenon, and often rewarding; it's fit for grooving to on your headphones and as you allow it to absorb into your life. This is especially true of ...
- exclaim.ca
2015-03-27
★★★★★
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"Silence relieves me / Speaks when I can't / tells me when it's getting out of hand..."
Vetiver's sixth album is a smooth, steady unfurling of understated jangle, celestial hum and whispery self-contemplation, sung (and strummed) by "an honest man whose instincts fail..." who's "blind enough to see.....
- www.thefourohfive.com
2015-03-25
★★★★★
For over a decade Vetiver has essentially been the vehicle for Andy Cabic to gently pursue his own form of understated musical exploration. He may not have been the most prolific of artists and not one prone to radical reinvention, but sixth album Complete Strangers confirms the small incremental progressions that each album has brought. It also shows his music to be moving in an increasingly harmonious and almost mainstream direction...
- www.musicomh.com
2015-03-24
★★★★★
The voice of Vetiver leader Andy Cabic doesn't enter Complete Strangers, the project's sixth album, for more than 100 seconds. Instead, refracted guitars, neon keyboards, and muffled saxophones percolate around a padded house beat and a drum kit's gentle kick. A half-dozen players rise steadily into a krautrock-like sprawl, their textures swirling around the constant thump...
- pitchfork.com
2015-03-23
★★★★★
Vetiver, aka Andy Cabic, composed Complete Strangers to the rhythm of his own footsteps. As he walked the Silicon-paved streets of San Francisco, the seeds of his first offering in five years sprouted and matured. Cabic describes the LP as a work of transition and duality, where "sunshine is only a chord away from melancholy...
- consequenceofsound.net
2015-03-24
★★★★★
A lot of artists use a similar formula when it comes to putting out records: write an accessible, likeable debut and develop a solid fan base, then start getting experimental when you know you've got them hooked and have some artistic leeway. Sub Pop indie act Vetiver did it backwards. Their 2004 self-titled debut pinned Vetiver into the "freak folk" genre with artists like Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, both of whom guested on a handful of the record's tracks...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Andy Cabic's songwriting up until this fourth Vetiver album has always had a certain 'lived in' melancholy to it. 2006's 'I Know No Pardon' was his 'I Shall Be Released'. There was always the impression that this young man was constantly chasing lost moments and feelings. His music is deep. Since To Find Me Gone Vetiver have released an album and an EP of covers containing many songs that were noticeably more pop-based, or at least more chirpy than their mysterious two albums beforehand...
- www.tourdates.co.uk
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The Errant Charm's crisp acoustic guitars and buoyant vocals whisk you away to the warm carefree days of summer, letting you believe that Vetiver have had a two year holiday since their last release Tight Knit. A livelier album than previous releases, The Errant Charm sees Vetiver steer slightly away from quiet folk ballads towards a bubblier, more poppy sound. First track "It's Beyond Me" opens with a resonating chimes which gently give way to unsettled guitar chords...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2011-09-22
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