Carousel Waltz
by The Robot Ate Me
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Lost At Sea
    85
    Carousel Waltz is an extremely personal album, sublimely disguised as a sweet bit of pop fluff.
  2. Splendid
    80
    The intimacy is startling. The introspection is as charming as it is insightful.
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    80
    This is not an album bent on changing the way one listens to music, but the way one listens to their self.
  5. Pitchfork
    78
    Carousel Waltz drives a pretty flat road, without the peaks and valleys of their previous work, but that suits the grounded emotions and realizations they're addressing, skirting the line between the unaffected and mundane.
  6. Prefix Magazine
    70
    Sincerity is one of the hardest things to pull off in music, so it’s to Bouchard’s credit that he does so effectively.
  7. cokemachineglow
    66
    The majority of Carousel just plain sounds the same. It might as well be the same pace, might as well be in the same key, might as well be the same vocal melody over and over; it's a carousel if there’s ever been one.
  8. Neumu.net
    65
    While the album is pleasant, it takes awhile to open up. And once opened up, it's nice, but hardly revolutionary.

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. AnatasiaA
    Aug 8, 2005
    10
    Beautiful, Ryland is amazing.
  2. sophie
    Jul 25, 2005
    8
    very simple but poignant. something for someone looking for a more stripped down yet soft, intimate sound.
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