Shadow Offering

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Shadow Offering
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 19, 2020 (2020-06-19)
Length45:10
LabelSecret City
ProducerChris Walla[1]
Braids chronology
Deep in the Iris
(2015)
Shadow Offering
(2020)
Singles from Shadow Offering
  1. "Eclipse"
    Released: November 21, 2019[2]
  2. "Young Buck"
    Released: January 31, 2020[3]
  3. "Just Let Me"
    Released: April 30, 2020[4]

Shadow Offering is the fourth studio album by Canadian experimental pop/art rock band Braids. It was originally slated to be released on April 24, 2020, but was delayed to June 19 of that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1][5][6]

The album was produced by former Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla.[7]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[8]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Clash8/10[10]
Exclaim!7/10[11]
The Line of Best Fit9/10[12]
Loud and Quiet7/10[13]
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Under the Radar8.5/10[16]

Shadow Offering 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 78, based on 13 reviews.[8] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the album 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 15 reviews.[17]

Accolades

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Accolades for Shadow Offering
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Stereogum Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2020 – Mid-Year
28
Under the Radar Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2020
24

Track listing

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Shadow Offering track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Here 4 U"3:51
2."Young Buck"3:53
3."Eclipse"4:56
4."Just Let Me"5:15
5."Upheaval II"5:03
6."Fear of Men"4:30
7."Snow Angel"9:00
8."Ocean"3:49
9."Note to Self"4:29

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