Black Tambourine (album) explained

Black Tambourine
Type:compilation
Artist:Black Tambourine
Cover:BlackTambourine_comp.jpg
Released:March 30, 2010
Recorded:1989–June 2009
Label:Slumberland
Prev Title:Complete Recordings
Prev Year:1999
Next Title:Black Tambourine Cassette
Next Year:2010

Black Tambourine is a compilation album by American indie pop band Black Tambourine. The album was released in 2010 by Slumberland Records and contains the band's complete recordings up to that point, serving to replace the prior 1999 compilation Complete Recordings. Black Tambourine features six additional previously unreleased tracks, including four new songs recorded in June 2009 specifically for the album.

Reception

Metacritic rates the album as an 88/100. AllMusic reviewer Ned Raggett gave the album a 4.5/5 and said that "hearing songs like the beautiful "For Ex-Lovers Only," "I Was Wrong," and "Pack You Up" again -- with their feedback as hooks, rumbling rhythms, and heavily reverbed (sic) yet still strongly sung ruminations on life and love -- is its own treat" and says that "it's the six extras that receive the focus of attention on this disc".