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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the debut album for the former Mazzy Star chanteuse's new band.
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
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  1. 100
    A warm serving of elegant late-night ballads that infuse acoustic and pedal-steel guitars with back-porch rhythms and arrangements.
  2. 100
    It's magical and mysterious, compelling and complex.
  3. Mojo
    90
    There's a narcotic quality to these drifting ballads, one that perfectly suits these shell shocked, terrorised times. As the world gears up for the Apocalypse, I shall take comfort in Bavarian Fruit Bread -- a very haunting, beautiful record. [Nov 2001]
  4. Magnet
    70
    Her built-in fanbase will exult in the sulky ruminations found here. [#52, p.101]
  5. Bavarian Fruit Bread comes with the same warning as most of the winter season's baked goods -- it's rich, warm and full of flavor, but overindulgence will result in unplanned napping.
  6. 'Bavarian Fruit Bread' represents a towering piece of morphine-induced self-indulgence.
  7. The Wire
    50
    Sandoval's overly stylised vocals really start to grate over the distance of a whole LP. [#213, p.65]

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