Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest solo album for the Rilo Kiley singer features guests such as Elvis Costello and Chris Robinson.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 26
  2. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Various guests--including Elvis Costello, M. Ward, and the singer’s own sister and father--are fun, but Lewis clearly remains the star, rising.
  2. 80
    Lively and loose, cut with collaborators including her talented Scottish boyfriend Johnathan Rice, spooky folkie M. Ward and actress-singer Zooey Deschanel, the 11 songs (many of which she has performed live for years) encompass Southern-gothic folk, Appalachian blues stomps and 'The Next Messiah,' an eight-minute, Who-style rock mini-opera.
  3. 80
    This second album easily stands on its own merits. [Oct 2008, p.102]
  4. The scrappy indie bite of Lewis’ early work may be gone and you won’t find much in the way of Marshall’s emotional bloodletting. But even if it’s likely to cost Lewis the affections of online tastemakers, she looks set to charm an increasingly large audience for years to come.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. ToddG.
    10
    Amazing cd. The more you listen to it the better it gets.
  2. 8
    In this marvellous album we can see all the different sides of Jenny Lewis: the country one in "San Fernando", the sorrowful one in "Trying My Best To Love You", the fun one in "Carpetbagger" (a song with a contribution from Elvis Costello), and also the nostalgic one in "Acid Tongue". But in all the songs we can hear two things: she has grown, (but that doesn't mean she isn't lovely anymore, on the contrary, you'll fall in love with her again and again while listening to this album), and the other thing is that in all the tracks there's a Californian atmosphere that gives the album an homogeneous sound Expand
  3. Allan
    7
    More like 6.5-7.. She doesn't reach her full potential on this album, and Rabbit Fur Coat is certainly the superior album. I'll always buy and listen to anything Jenny ever does though. Best track is Godspeed. Expand
  4. GraemeB.
    4
    Sorry, but this album isn't as good as "Rabbit Fur Coat." It was supposed to be experimental and new and blahblahblah. Whatever. It was a failed experiment, much like Rilo Kiley's last album. There are about four tracks that I can listen to all the way through. The rest are collecting dust in my playlist. Get back to your roots, Jenny. Expand

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