If Children
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| If Children | ||||
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| Released | 2007 | |||
| Recorded | Winter of 2006 | |||
| Length | 41:41 | |||
| Label | Self-released | |||
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If Children is the debut studio album by Baltimore-based band Wye Oak, originally self-released in 2007 under the band name Monarch,[1] then re-released on April 8, 2008 by Merge Records.[2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
| American Songwriter | [4] |
| Robert Christgau |  [5] |
| Exclaim! | (favorable)[6] |
| The Line of Best Fit | 81/100[1] |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10[7] |
| Prefix | 7/10[8] |
| Seven Days | (favorable)[2] |
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."[7] 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,"[9] and said of the album that it was "Poised warily between innocence and experience, d/b/a melody and chaos."[5]