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Mojo

No self-indulgence, no grandstanding, just excellent. [Mar 2004, p.100]

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]

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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]

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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]

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Q Magazine

Finds his muse back in rudest health after the relative disappointment of Rock N Roll. [Feb 2004, p.98]

Entertainment Weekly

Song for song, the EPs trump ''Rock 'n' Roll.''

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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.

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Rolling Stone

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

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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]

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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']

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Pitchfork

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

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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.

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What Our Users Said

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.

Nasty R gave it a9:
Love Is Hell 2 is more diverse than first part, full of excellent songs (thank you louise my fav), another great album, jeff buckley throne is on adams head in 2003

Will R gave it a10:
Absolutely amazing record, my favourite album ever (by that I mean both EPs)

J gave it a9:
Although part, 1 is slightly better, this opne is still one of the most beautiful albums of the year...

Tim S gave it a 7:
It's no Heartbreaker, but it's still better than most everything else that's out there. At least that's my opinion, dammit.

Brian M gave it an 8:
This one is just a tad bit better than part one and infinitly better than Rock n Roll. Part one and two are definite listens for people who think Ryan has lost his touch.

Ben J gave it a 7:
Blinding - knock off the last couple of songs, add the rest to Love Is Hell Part 1 and you've got the album of the year. Note to record lable: clean your ears out you idiots!

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