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Love Is Hell, Part 2 [EP]
by Ryan Adams
Adams' 'Love Is Hell' 2-part album concludes with seven more tracks.
| LABEL: |
Lost Highway |
| RELEASE DATE: |
09 December 2003 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Indie, Rock |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Mojo
No self-indulgence, no grandstanding, just excellent. [Mar 2004, p.100]
90
New Musical Express
The Adams of Love Is Hell has gone out to make an album that actually is classic rock n roll rather than one that can simply impersonate it, and sound convincing. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Love Is Hell gets where it intends to go, because instead of Rock N Roll's tossed-off muscle-flexing, Adams supplies actual songs. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]

80
Flak Magazine
Showcas[es] low-key numbers that draw on many of the influences that made Adams' Whiskeytown and early solo work so strong. [combined review of 1&2]

80
Q Magazine
Finds his muse back in rudest health after the relative disappointment of Rock N Roll. [Feb 2004, p.98]
75
Entertainment Weekly
Song for song, the EPs trump ''Rock 'n' Roll.''

70
Tiny Mix Tapes
As a full-album, Love is Hell is a lovely, drug-induced contrast to the balls-out rockers on Rock n Roll, but Pt 2 is significantly weaker on its own.

70
Rolling Stone
Seven riveting explorations that don't sound like anything else in his songbook.

70
Dot Music
Although 'Love Is Hell' comes with the assumption that it's more honest than 'Rock'n'Roll', the influences here - albeit different - are just as distracting. [Review applicable to both Part 1 and Part 2]

67
Austin Chronicle
The Love Is Hell discs are far more dense and dark, making the songs a fun challenge to crack open, though it isn't difficult to determine what a no-brainer it must have been for Lost Highway to favor the brilliant Roll over the more spotty Hell discs. [Review applies to both EPs and 'Rock N Roll']

40
Pitchfork
The sad fact is, no marketing strategy, no matter how savvy, could conceal this collection's bathetic, overwrought travesties and gruesome failures.

40
ShakingThrough.net
As tough a slog as the backend of Part 1 is, it's Part 2 that truly reveals just how rushed, haphazard and ill-formed Adams' stab at morose mope-rock is.


The average user rating for this album is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
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