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Gemstones - Adam Green
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Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

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7.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

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  • Summary: The singer-songwriter (formerly of The Moldy Peaches) follows his acclaimed set 'Friends Of Mine' with this disc produced by Dan Myers.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. Stylus Magazine
    91
    Simply put, either you'll love this album or not "get" it. It's too good an album for you to not like if you understand it.
  2. The Guardian
    60
    His sparse, sweet acoustic songs charm more than they shock, and make you think rather than irritate.
  3. Neumu.net
    35
    Gemstones is shit. It's awful. It really, really is.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Malthe
    10
    mmmhh.... Adam green.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. sciri
    5
    "the best songwriter of our century!" huh tamara? whenever you here that about anything be it a book, a film or an album. you can guarantee its a piece of over rated trash! I think I'll try and judge the best songwriter of the century some time around 2099 rather than 2005.… Expand
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  3. jasonW
    3
    When a large number of people decry a piece of work as "unlistenable" or "rubbish", there will invariably be a circle of contrarians and hipsters who will claim the opposite. But once the irony and hype wears out, the work will be put on the shelf to collect dust. Why do people put so much energy into albums like this? So they can be a talking point at cool -people- parties. Jandek, Banhart, etc. It's the culture surrounding the work rather than the work itself. There is a joy and merit to this idea of community, understandably, and anyone who writes semi-anonymous reviews for the internet belongs to such a community by default. But it's no excuse for crap music. Sorry.… Expand
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