• Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Jan 22, 2002
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Exquisitely moody songs alternate with instrumentals that sound like outtakes from the Mothers of Invention's Burnt Weeny Sandwich (that's a compliment). [25 Jan 2002, p.107]
  2. The album is surprisingly consistent despite its unbalanced components.
  3. Working outside of the framework of the pop song, Merritt is left to explore more exotic sound sources and song structures. Unfortunately, without that framework, these elements often fail to amount to anything significant, providing somewhat interesting, meandering background music, but little more.
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    A superb piece of work. [Apr 2002, p.117]
  5. The combination of quietly gorgeous pop songs and noise bites struggling to become quietly gorgeous pop songs makes for bewitching Sunday-morning listening.
  6. It's another Merritt CD that's so good, it could radically alter the world if it was broadcast from the moon.
User Score
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No user score yet- Awaiting 2 more ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. KonstantinosA.
    Sep 22, 2002
    9
    Album of the year probably... "Some Summer Day" is the 70th Love Song ;-)
  2. DanielleR.
    Mar 6, 2002
    10
    Fantastic