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62 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

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7.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings

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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. Dot Music
    60
    It's not, in the final reckoning, a terribly important and wildly impressive record.
  3. 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
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  2. Irynn
    5
    The instrumentation was a little over powering and unnecessary. Who needs three guitars??? The music itself is something worth while, but her lyrics were childish and juvenile...I feel as if she was another Avril Lavigne..."You're just a boy and I'm just a girl." I think either track six or five...It's corporate speaking through her...it's all about sex these days...how original.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JonH
    0
    As bad as Courtney Love's album, cliche filled, uninspired.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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