Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
by Todd Snider
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Country Weekly
    May 10, 2012
    60
    While Snider has been more entertaining and melodically engaging on previous efforts, here he risks trying to get his head around the disturbing times in which we live and, just as importantly, to avoid clichéd responses.
  2. The Independent (UK)
    Mar 8, 2012
    60
    Set to a messy blend of waspish blues guitar and wild fiddle, it's a typically barbed, angry set.

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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
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  1. Manik_Music
    Apr 11, 2012
    9
    Full review available at Manik Music http://www.manikmusic.net/reviews/todd-sniders-agnostic-hymns-and-stoner-fables/

    Todd Snider is not    Full review available at Manik Music http://www.manikmusic.net/reviews/todd-sniders-agnostic-hymns-and-stoner-fables/

    Todd Snider is not the kind of artist that you can get into by popping his record into your CD player on a sunny day and having a casual listen as you go for a weekend drive. For one, his voice is as full of cracks as your average city sidewalk and his songs combine a highly refined blend of humor, sarcasm, and satire that oftentimes takes at least a few listens to fully appreciate. On Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables, Snider offers up a host of biting blues songs that function as a darkly hilarious critique of the social and economic problems facing modern America. Alternating between playfully mocking and downright vitriolic, the songs on this record are Todd turning his highly attuned gift for satire and wordplay to the attention of the greed and dishonesty that have caused such problems for regular folks in America these days. The album kicks off with the brilliant â    … Full Review »
  2. AlexxTrusc
    Mar 31, 2012
    4
    Todd Snider, fortunately, has an interesting timbre of voice - otherwise the album "Hymns & Stoner Agnostic Fables" would be merely averageTodd Snider, fortunately, has an interesting timbre of voice - otherwise the album "Hymns & Stoner Agnostic Fables" would be merely average disc from the border of alt country and folk. Ten of the composition does not differ much from each other, only the interesting stories woven into the songs saves album - for ex. "In The Beginning".… Full Review »
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