Given To The Wild
by The Maccabees
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Given To The Wild is ranked as the best album by The Maccabees.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/03/2025 10:15 | cicadelic | 11,918 | 73/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 17:33 | markl73 | 545 | 79/100 |
| ! | 05/18/2025 00:38 | Proto | 4,011 | 33/100 |
| ! | 05/16/2024 02:57 | javicho07 | 3,079 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2023 22:23 | PapaShiz86 | 11,043 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.8/100, a mean average of 69.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.2.
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Bought this on the back of Pelican which is a class track, and almost not worth it despite that. Reminds me of the Beta Band but taking themselves too seriously which is not a good thing. It's alright to begin with but soon bores - not one I'm going to listen to too often, I'll just make sure Pelican is on my i-pod favourites!
Mophos 01/06/2014 13:03 | #100002
It all felt overdone at first, but I had to change my opinion after a few more listens. It's quite good in fact!
I bought this on the back of the release of Pelican. I thought it was very much like Razorlight and wasted my money buying it. Not keen at all too drab for my liking
Brilliant album that is even better played live.
meruizh 03/15/2013 19:52 | #68462
Now this album, is underated. Common guys, this is a phenomenal album. It shows the mature form of The Maccabees, compared with their previous albums. As you can perceive many influences, it's definitely not a mono-tone album. Go, Pelican, Ayla, Feel to follow, Forever I've Known, Heave... a great album. A top 10 spot for sure.
paladisiac 11/27/2012 21:14 | #56070
What do i make of the maccabees? It's been 15 years since radiohead's "ok computer" and 17 since "the bends" but their influence is still being felt, most likely through subsequent derivatives like coldplay and muse. In this case, there's a heavy flavor of radiohead-by-the-way-of-coldplay-or-starsailor going on here that initially keeps me from focusing on the songs of "given to the wild". Turning to the vocals, they can sometimes be downright wussy-frail like at the beginning of "feel to follow", but elsewhere the vocals are quite emotive and tugging in a coldplay-kinda way. Overall, these are good songs, but there is no stratosphere-piercing "high and dry" or "yellow" in here, only semblances of their ghosts, which still work well.
covecove 05/02/2012 14:01 | #41387
Good album, bit generic but good none the less
Best Tracks: Child, Go, Pelican.
Truly fantastic album to start off the year-the overall sound is both dreamy and atmospheric as well as having lots of pulsing addictive beats as well as lots of catchy guitar riffs.
I expected something completely different after hearing the first single "Pelican". I thought the album is gonna be full of energetic and fun songs, but it is quite mellow. Not bad, I actually enjoyed it.
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