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

Little Honey finds Williams in celebratory mode, with raucous rock, bluesy testimonies and tongue-in-cheek twang.

Read Full Review >

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Williams spent much of this decade proving she can branch out, but here she's staged something even more impressive: a pleasing homecoming.

Read Full Review >

Austin Chronicle

With Little Honey, she pays back fans whose faith had waned as her songwriting grew pedantic on recent albums such as "West."

Read Full Review >

Los Angeles Times

There's a raw energy on Little Honey--which arrives this week, a little more than a year after 2007's "West"--that's as refreshing as it is palpable.

Read Full Review >

Hot Press

Lucinda Williams provides instruction for those who feel fucked around and fobbed off at 40-something.

Read Full Review >

Hartford Courant

Little Honey is easily Williams' least depressing album in years, which doesn't sound like much of a compliment until you consider that she sounds downright happy on some of these tunes for the first time in, well, maybe ever.

Read Full Review >

Rolling Stone

While it shows that the 55-year-old barbed-wire country singer is wary of rock's trappings, Little Honey proves she's still crushed out on the music.

Read Full Review >

Billboard

Williams and Elvis Costello get their twang on for the spirited 'Jailhouse Tears,' and a combination of new elements (horns) and powerhouse playing by her touring band Buick 6 bolster the set's emotional heft.

Read Full Review >

Spin

The result is her finest record since "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road," the decade-old masterpiece by which her career will always be judged.

Read Full Review >

Uncut

Little Honey is a heartening and humble album, sufficiently smart and aware to be an expression of thanks for the journey as well as the destination.

Read Full Review >

PopMatters

So while there are a few more missteps here than we’re used to seeing from our beloved Lucinda, for the most part, her music has survived that awful, awful curse of falling in love.

Read Full Review >

Slant Magazine

'Real Love' is the first of a number of raucous tracks on the very good, though a tad uneven, Little Honey.

Read Full Review >

Blender

Despite the metaphysical yet conversational “Knowing” and a sexed-up title track that begins with his come in her hair, she doesn’t offer enough evidence that her new love is any realer than all the others she’s exulted and struggled through in eight albums going back to 1979.

Read Full Review >

Tiny Mix Tapes

With Little Honey Williams has once again assured her fanbase that she is incapable of releasing an album that is anything less than collection-worthy and wholly listenable.

Read Full Review >

Entertainment Weekly

And though those positive vibes yield some correspondingly fun tunes, the disc feels a bit underwritten at times.

Read Full Review >

All Music Guide

Upon first listen Little Honey is quite jarring for all of its textural and production shifts and dodges, but in time it settles into the listener as a mixed collection of decent songs that pack some punch, but no jaw-dropping wallops.

Read Full Review >

NOW Magazine

Williams does sound inspired, and there’s an energetic current running through Little Honey that was missing on previous records.

Read Full Review >

Mojo

Little Honey is, then, a something for everyone offering. And a few will be disappointed. [Nov 2008, p.104]

Observer Music Monthly

The happy-in-love rockers are doggedly inessential, but ballads such as 'The Knowing' and 'Plan to Marry' redress the balance beautifully.

Read Full Review >

Pitchfork

While Williams generally sticks to her strengths and suppresses most of her more unsavory musical habits, she maintains her curious reliance on tacky AABB rhyme schemes and lyrical clichés.

Read Full Review >

The New York Times

When she’s hurting, she can still sear. [But] too often here, though, Ms. Williams gets bogged down turning her magnifying glass back on music making.

Read Full Review >

Boston Globe

For an artist whose reputation for painstaking perfectionism and poetic acumen is legendary, Little Honey is too much saccharine and not enough substance.

Read Full Review >

Q Magazine

For such a distinctive voice, disappointingly run of the mill. [Nov 2008, p.123]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Music

Upcoming &Recent Releases

Little Honey

Album Info

Summary

What The Critics Said

What Our Users Said

Upcoming &
Recent Releases