Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur
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62 out of 100

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7.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: This is the solo debut for Melissa Auf der Maur, who served as bassist for both Smashing Pumpkins and Hole. Chris Goss produced the disc, which also features appearances from Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Brant Bjork (Kyuss) and James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins).

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    Melissa has delivered a hugely sexual, gleefully psychedelic rock record that’s so full of deliciously melancholic stadium destroyers and beautifully de-tuned melodic bombs that, at the perfectly reasonable age of 32, you get the impression that the really good stuff is only just beginning.
  2. Blender
    60
    Buffeted by big guitars, her thin, untrained voice occasionally sounds listless. [May 2004, p.118]
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  3. Dot Music
    60
    It's not, in the final reckoning, a terribly important and wildly impressive record.
  4. The A.V. Club
    30
    She never finds a way to distinguish one track from the next, or from the output of just about any '90s alt-rock also-ran.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. IronMason
    10
    all albums pwn.she is amazing
    Makes me proud to be canadian.

    i think everyone needs some melissa in there life
    she is probley one of they     coolest women let alone person out there.
    i hope to one day see OOOM live one day in my hometown.    … Expand
  2. drownsoda
    8
    Pounding modern rock airwaves, Auf der Maur's debut solo album sets the bar for a new style of alternative rock and leaves Courtney Love's solo attempt in the back of the que. Heavy but beautiful, raw but well-cooked, MAdM invites you in and you'd be a fool to miss it!… Expand
  3. [Anonymous]
    7
    A competent but inconsistent platter of Alternative rock. Melissa has some talent, but she can't match her mentors, and it comes in somewhat inconsistent bursts. Still, the album offers a decent bunch of hard rocking gems and can be enjoyed, all of them accented with a female edginess that redeems even the most mediocre tracks. An easy album to like, but because of its flaws, hard to love.… Expand
  4. JonH
    0
    As bad as Courtney Love's album, cliche filled, uninspired.

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