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Me And Armini
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 8 votes
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Album Info
Label: Rough Trade
Release Date: 09 September 2008
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Pop
Summary
The latest album for the Icelandic singer was produced by Dan Carey.
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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...
Paste Magazine
There is most certainly a parallel universe in which Emilana Torrini is the Next Big Thing.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Me and Armini emerges as an album suitable for bookworms and beach bunnies, homebodies and world travelers, dancers and wallflowers. Highly recommended.
Read Full Review >musicOMH.com
This feels more polished product and will no doubt have a broader appeal as a result, but it is a treasure of a thing and the more people that hear it the better.
Read Full Review >Slant Magazine
Accompanied by sultry electric guitar licks, reverb-y finger-snaps and breathy grunts, 'Gun' might be one of the sexiest bloodbaths on record--and the highlight of an album that's filled with them.
Read Full Review >Uncut
This album subtly expands her metrical, folksy songcraft to the point where songs like 'Heard It All Before' and 'Fireheads' are just one spoonfed breakbeat from being charttoppers. [Oct 2008, p.113]
Q Magazine
Me and Armini isn't an immediate record--it's too opaque, too guarded for that--but as it gives up its secrets, it slowly moves its stuff into your mind, a strange cuckoo in the musical nest. [Oct 2008, p.151]
Mojo
Emiliana is blessed in her musical collaborator Dan Carey, with whom she calibrates an acoustic-led chamber trip-hop with plenty of room for her voice to breathe. [Nov 2008, p.111]
Spin
Torrini's much more engaging, though, when cooing Me and Armini's less flamboyant folk pop. [Nov 2008, p.102]
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
Me and Armini merely falls short of being as fully conceived as the astonoshing "Fisherman’s Woman."
Read Full Review >Blender
Torrini captures a few joyful infatuations followed by a lot of lingering wounds; she’s vulnerable but never conquered.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
It's more adventurous than the album prior–-and generally more successful in this eclecticism than her debut, certainly--yet that Torrini’s best work lies ahead of her seems indubitable.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
Ultimately, however, Me and Armini is basically just an above-average batch of pop music that, while generally not on par with her last album, does occasionally match it’s high standards in warmth and candor.
Read Full Review >The Guardian
A chunk of Me and Armini revives that gentle acoustic mood: these tracks are beautiful in their way, mournful and gossamer-light, but insipid compared with the album's more inspired moments.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
The third album from the Italo-Icelandic Torrini juggles successfully with a plethora of genres. [Year End 2008, p.83]
Pitchfork
Torrini's voice is pleasant but also pretty anonymous, so it's therefore well-suited to any number of (mostly mellow) musical settings.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Richard D. gave it a10:
Better than the last album - its that is possible. Forget the mediocre reviews on Metacritic, this CD is bliss on silicone.
Jeff D. gave it a9:
Except for track #4, I completely love this CD.
Jeremy gave it a9:
Nearly perfect. Big Jumps is a bit corny, but the rest is really really good. My favorite tracks are: Heard it All Before, Ha Ha, Hold Heart, and Bleeder.
