Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Outburn
    100
    Peaches hasn't suffered from the sophomore slump one bit. [#23, p.96]
  2. 'Fatherfucker' is one motherfucker of an album.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Now grafting meaty guitars and ferocious singing onto her minimal electronic beats, she summons the very spirit of rock & roll. [26 Sep 2003, p.95]
  4. Urb
    80
    Takes her dirty white girlisms to an even more profound yet still salacious place. [Nov 2003, p.89]
  5. More consistent and enjoyable than its predecessor.
  6. It's filthy, low-budget fun that's still plenty fucked up, whether you're a first-timer or a hardcore Peaches fanatic.
  7. Q Magazine
    80
    There is one glaring drawback: so taboo-shredding are her lyrics, and so brutal her music, that she probably won't achieve the clout to which she obviously aspires. [Oct 2003, p.99]
  8. Under The Radar
    80
    Some say electroclash. Wrong. This is rock and roll. [#5, p.103]
  9. Mojo
    80
    A combination of fierce electro-clash, stabbing rock riffs, and the rudest raps on the planet. [Oct 2003, p.118]
  10. Uncut
    80
    Fatherfucker pillages Missy Elliott, Suicide and "Justify My Love"-era Madonna, and even outfoxes the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. [Oct 2003, p.126]
  11. Spin
    75
    Peaches seems to be having much more fun with her sleazy subject matter. [Nov 2003, p.116]
  12. For reasons of quality, as well as the inevitable loss of the shock of the new, 'Fatherf*cker' isn't quite the album its predecessor, 'The Teaches Of Peaches', was.
  13. The album largely treads the same brazen minimal-electro territory; and most of the dick/tits/cunt-centric songs will be familiar for anyone who's seen Peaches' girlie-show shows in full-frontal effect over the past couple years.
  14. Alternative Press
    60
    Unfortunately, the tinny stutters and retro keyboards... drag when they're not amped up on desire. [Dec 2003, p.158]
  15. Peaches seems to intentionally drop the ball throughout Fatherfucker.
  16. Ultimately this album is neither the triumph or the disaster that it could've been.
  17. Quite a few tracks simultaneously lack subtlety and boldness, reverting to the kind of scatological shock bag you might expect from a third-rate performance artist.
  18. Nearly all of Fatherfucker falls back into ostensibly bracing anthems that sound plain stupid in such abundance.
  19. Where Teaches was brash, Fatherfucker is dim; where Teaches was shocking in its gender-bending, sexually charged language, Fatherfucker is bland, repetitive and obvious in its attempts to turn standard conventions upside down.
  20. The beats on Fatherfucker are not only frustratingly simplistic, but the energy and surprising rhythmic complexity of the vocals on her debut are noticeably absent, too.
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. May 26, 2011
    10
    Simply Fantastic. Ahead of it's time.
  2. othostice
    Aug 3, 2006
    1
    Nothing here that others have not done better and more subtly, from Chrissie Hynde to Li'l Kim. If she weren't white, would she Nothing here that others have not done better and more subtly, from Chrissie Hynde to Li'l Kim. If she weren't white, would she even have a recording contract? Full Review »
  3. LaLa
    Feb 1, 2004
    10
    Great