Alive To Every Smile
by Trembling Blue Stars
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Oct 23, 2001
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Pitchfork
    59
    A lot of bands venture close to soft-rock territory and come out unscathed. Trembling Blue Stars aren't so lucky.
  2. Neumu.net
    50
    Alive to Every Smile finds TBS swanning through a set of soft-pop numbers giddy with the misty misery of melancholy and coated with the softest frostings of studio icing-sugar.
  3. AllMusic
    60
    No matter the players, Alive to Every Smile is so patently a Bob Wratten album that, honestly, it sounds a little tired.

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
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  1. FrankB
    Jun 12, 2005
    10
    Brilliant. Sorrowful. Genius. Crushing. If Annemari Davies and Robert Wratten got back together for for more album, the world would be a Brilliant. Sorrowful. Genius. Crushing. If Annemari Davies and Robert Wratten got back together for for more album, the world would be a better place.… Full Review »
  2. Sharon
    Nov 17, 2003
    10
    One of my favourite albums ever. Because of Alive To Every Smile, i have bought practically everything ever recorded by Bob Wratten. Excellent!!
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