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Between My Head and the Sky
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The first album credited to the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band since 1975 features Keigo "Cornelius" Oyamada, Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto), and her son/producer Sean Lennon.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Uncut
    100
    This is an excellent album that manages to be both a mature summary of an artist’s career and something completely fresh and new.
  2. The A.V. Club
    83
    The good news: Ono, as usual, doesn’t need our approval--not just because she’s rich and famous and fuck you, but because her music stands on its own.
  3. Spin
    80
    Lightest Ono album ever? Probably. Heaviest avant-pop from a 76-year-old mainstream pariah/underground innovator? Hell, yeah!
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    Lennon would be proud. [Oct 2009, p.114]
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  5. Rolling Stone
    80
    At 76, her music remains truly vital: unsettling, touching, funny, undeniable.
  6. AllMusic
    80
    This is a deeply focused, wonderfully colorful, and deeply expressive work that showcases a collaboration between mother and son and displays depth, strength, creativity in spades, and intense beauty.
  7. Urb
    60
    Love her or hate her, Between My Head And The Sky isn't terrible. Yoko Ono is still in the game, and if it's possible to find a deeper meaning to lyrics like "Why is [the elephant] so big/ He says because you're small honey," then more power to her.

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Awards & Rankings

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#35 Best Album of 2009