User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
Four Stars Image
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
tbd

No user score yet- Be the first to review!

  • Artist(s): Patrick Keeler, Jack Lawrence
  • Summary: The Cincinnati rock band led by Craig Fox reunites after Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler formed The Raconteurs with Jack White and Brendan Benson during The Greenhornes' hiatus in 2005.
Buy Now
Buy on
  • Record Label: Warner Bros.
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Garage Punk, Garage Rock Revival, Psychedelic/Garage, Garage Rock
  • More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Feb 8, 2011
    100
    Strangely enchanting.
  2. Feb 8, 2011
    90
    It is an exceedingly agreeable collection of ultra-catchy garage-pop complete with slash-and-burn guitars, wheedling psychedelic organs, gauzy ballads, dollops of Motown stomp, and loads of love laments both despairing and fidgety.
  3. Feb 8, 2011
    83
    Fox and crew have held their ground, dug in deep, and scored another win for timelessness.
  4. Feb 8, 2011
    70
    Apparently, [Craig Fox's] been stockpiling solid songs: From the slinky "Go Tell Henry" to the stinging snarl of "Underestimator," everything here is taut and lively. The lone drawback: It all sounds terribly familiar.
  5. A mind-tweaking knees-up in the second-chance saloon for Fox.
  6. Feb 8, 2011
    60
    Their derivativeness is fine when the songs are catchy....But when the pace slackens, it's hard to silence the suspicion that this is effectively a pub band that got lucky.
  7. Q Magazine
    Mar 1, 2011
    60
    In any sensible home there's always room for some no-nonsense, Nuggets-era Garage rock, however, and for that alone the impossibly titled **** pushes plenty of the right buttons. [Jan 2011, p.142]

See all 12 Critic Reviews