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]
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]
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