The Brave and the Bold (album)

The Brave and the Bold
Studio album by Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Released	January 24, 2006 (2006-01-24)
Recorded	2003-2004
Studio	Soma Studios
Length	39:44
Label	Overcoat Recordings
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy chronology
Superwolf (2005) The Brave and the Bold (2006) The Letting Go (2006)
Tortoise chronology
It's All Around You (2004) The Brave and the Bold (2006) A Lazarus Taxon (2006)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	65/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	B+
The Guardian
Pitchfork	5.4/10
PopMatters
Slant Magazine

The Brave and the Bold is a 2006 studio album by Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It consists of 10 cover songs. It was released on Overcoat Recordings.

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 65% based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork gave the album a 5.4 out of 10, stating that "The Brave and the Bold is a collection of not-particularly-compelling cover songs, rolled out by two of contemporary indie's most uncompromising and rewarding forces." Michael J. Kramer of PopMatters gave the album 8 stars out of 10, calling it "a melding of the minds, a comic-book collision of musical forces whose mutant powers turn mere simulation into disturbing mimetic magic."

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