Actor
by St. Vincent
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: May 5, 2009
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 146 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 136 out of 146
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 146
  3. Negative: 6 out of 146

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Awards & Rankings

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#70 Best Album of 2009
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#48 Most Discussed Album of 2009
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#45 Most Shared Album of 2009

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Blender
    80
    Her second album is rowdier and less well-behaved, and thus better, although the template is the same: breathy coos and lush strings intermittently blown apart by distorted guitar blasts.
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  2. musicOMH.com
    80
    On first listen it feels like the musical equivalent of doodling a massive cock-and-balls on a Rembrandt, but eventually this reveals itself as the first moment of compositional brilliance on an album packed full of them.
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  3. No Ripcord
    80
    Quite eponymously, the album is a grand performance, and one whose stagecraft is the sole work of a brilliant ringmaster in Clark.
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