Favourite Colours - The Sadies
Metascore
87 out of 100

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. 90
    A seamless, melodic blend of psychedelia and C&W... the songs and instrumentals here hang together beautifully. [Nov 2004, p.95]
  2. Imagine a troupe of gloomy cow-punks careening down a thundering Hawaiian pipeline and you've got a bead on their wildly divergent sound.
  3. They can still write the most incredibly beautiful songs. [23 Oct 2004, p.49]
  4. 80
    Hones the Southern harmonies and guitar-pickin' crosstalk of the brothers Good. [Nov 2004, p.116]
  5. Favourite Colours is lovely and adventurous stuff that proves the Sadies are only getting better with each trip into the studio.
  6. The results [on previous albums] came off a little mannered, but on Favourite Colours, the band finally exhibits an integrated command of its genre obsessions, playing chilly-but-urgent music with a distinctly Sadies flavor.
  7. There's an emerging depth and pensiveness to their songwriting, a growing sense of spirituality and drama.
  8. But while the album is stylistically and sonically brilliant, it still suffers from the primary flaw of the band's four previous albums: Their songwriting hasn't made the same leap as their chops.
User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. PaulH
    6
    I wasn't really that much impressed.
  2. CekoNase
    9
    A wonderful album -- pure pleasure from start to finish, and I think the lyrics work well with the music to meld dreaminess and worldliness into great music for any day. Full Review »
  3. LawrenceP
    8
    Music 10, lyrics 6 which equals a 8.