| If Children | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Wye Oak |
| Cover: | Wye Oak - If Children.png |
| Released: | Originally released in 2007, re-released by Merge Records on |
| Recorded: | Winter of 2006 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Label: | Merge Records |
| Next Title: | The Knot |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
If Children is the debut studio album by Baltimore-based band Wye Oak. The album was originally released in 2007, but was re-released on April 8, 2008 by Merge Records.[1]
Writing for Pitchfork, Mike Powell gave If Children a 7.1 out of 10 rating, saying that the album "displays a band that knows how to vary a theme just enough to keep momentum." Robert Christgau gave it a 2-star honorable mention rating, which corresponds to a "likable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well enjoy,"[2] and said of the album that it was "Poised warily between innocence and experience, d/b/a melody and chaos."