Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables - Todd Snider
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79 out of 100

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  • Summary: The latest album from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter was produced with Eric McConnell.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Expert Witness (MSN Music)
    Mar 6, 2012
    100
    he's scored a full album's worth of new material that remains completely in a character unique to him while adding something new to that character.
  2. Uncut
    Apr 6, 2012
    80
    The songs are suited by the rough and tumble, though, wearing the bruises with poise and pride. [May 2012, p.83]
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  3. Q Magazine
    Jun 20, 2012
    80
    Like a musical Bill Hicks, Snider's easy humour expresses his nonetheless serious message with a grace and poignancy few can muster. [Jun 2012, p.96]
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  4. 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.

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  1. Manik_Music
    9
    Full review available at Manik Music http://www.manikmusic.net/reviews/todd-sniders-agnostic-hymns-and-stoner-fables/

    Todd Snider is not th    e 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… Expand
  2. AlexxTrusc
    4
    Todd 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".… Expand

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