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Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 29 Ratings

  • Summary: Before reuniting The Pixies, Black recorded this mellow solo disc in four days in a Nashville studio, backed by veteran southern session musicians.

Top Track

I Burn Today
I knew a girl with sad blue eyes But at the feast I lost my psychic prize I did forget what the tarot maid did say I burn today I burn today Our... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 27
  2. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    Black's take on Southern soul: spare, graceful, in the pocket, with Black himself sounding reborn and relaxed. [22 Jul 2005, p.78]
  2. Uncut
    80
    A quietly remarkable record. [Aug 2005, p.92]
  3. [Honeycomb has] some of Black’s most mature songwriting to date and a chilled-out sound that plays like the cure to a hangover after a night of Pixies-soundtracked debauchery.
  4. Blender
    70
    Compared with the Pixies, this is conservative and gentlemanly. [Aug 2005, p.109]
  5. It suffers both in comparison to Black’s other solo material and on its own decidedly alt-country terms.
  6. The set is just a curio, banking everything on Black's low register, which has the texture but not the stamina to pull off so many slow, velvet lullabies about sour romance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 22
  3. Negative: 3 out of 22
  1. KathleenH
    Jul 29, 2005
    10
    This is Frank's masterpiece to date. Every song is finely crafted. I listen to this album non stop and am not bored. It's like This is Frank's masterpiece to date. Every song is finely crafted. I listen to this album non stop and am not bored. It's like meeting my husband for the first time-- I am instantly farmilar and enraptured and crave to know every detail of this work of art! This is a must for any serious music collector! Expand
  2. Yousuck
    Nov 29, 2005
    10
    What the? How could anyone give this great album a 3 or a 2?
  3. PaulA
    Dec 4, 2007
    10
    I was a huge Pixies fan back in the day but I hadn't really got into Frank Black's solo stuff until I recently bought Bluefinger, I was a huge Pixies fan back in the day but I hadn't really got into Frank Black's solo stuff until I recently bought Bluefinger, Dog in the Sand and Honeycomb practically at the same time... I'm a big fan again! Collapse
  4. TreG
    Jul 22, 2005
    9
    It warms the cockles of my Brummie heart.
  5. MatthewS
    Mar 4, 2007
    8
    Stands out like a shiny dime against the old money of a familiar genre. Positive and uplifting.
  6. Jan 5, 2012
    7
    Wow, for anyone who's a fan of the Pixies noise this will be a bit of a shock to say the least. No distortion or screaming to be found here.Wow, for anyone who's a fan of the Pixies noise this will be a bit of a shock to say the least. No distortion or screaming to be found here. It's slow placed weird countryish stuff all the way through. Not bad but lacks anything to cause much excitement. Expand
  7. ChrisA
    Sep 27, 2005
    2
    1solid album (pistolero) out of five purchases?

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