Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Calamity is slightly inconsistent and could be described as a hit-or-miss affair, but the hits outnumber the misses.
  2. Upon first listen, some of Calamity, though fun, sounds like partial ideas rather than full-fledged songs. Some tracks never recover from this symptom after a dozen spins; some do.
  3. The problems start with the production, which feels empty and stolid, the guitar plunking around like it has nowhere important to go and the drums tap-tap-tapping out mundane, aimless little shuffle rhythms.
  4. Uncut
    60
    Full of fleeting revelations, Calamity is as bewitchingly fractured as The Red Krayola's subversive attacks on pop/rock form. [Dec 2006, p.106]
  5. Calamity is a good record, but is merely adequate beside Cohen’s extensive catalog with [Deerhoof].
  6. Unfortunately, unlike Deerhoof's complex sonic and logical experiments, the Curtains' material feels too spare, too underdeveloped, less like well-honed songs than fledgling ideas that'd benefit from the input of additional bandmates.
User Score
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. LeoF
    Jan 20, 2007
    8
    one of the best of 2006, full of wonderful moods and unexpected turns on the songs.
  2. T.Speaker
    Jan 13, 2007
    7
    Cohen's album isn't perfect, and much of it feels empty, but the songwriting is much more beautiful and complex than most modern Cohen's album isn't perfect, and much of it feels empty, but the songwriting is much more beautiful and complex than most modern indie artists. I bought this record when it was released and still rotate it frequently. Full Review »