I Can Spin a Rainbow
by Amanda Palmer
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
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  1. davidpirtle
    Oct 18, 2017
    6
    This unapologetically avant-garde collaboration between two generations of already unconventional musical artists seems to revel in its own inaccessibility. Fans of the experimental Edward Ka-Spel will definitely be more at home here than Amanda Palmer's crowd. That being said, both camps should give it at least one spin, though I doubt it will ever be either's favorite work.

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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. AllMusic
    Jun 29, 2017
    50
    At best, I Can Spin a Rainbow feels like the work of two talented artists savoring a long weekend of boundless creativity together, but from an outsider's perspective, the results are a bit too impenetrable to contextualize without having been in the room to witness its genesis.
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  2. Q Magazine
    May 9, 2017
    80
    The pair mesh with ease. [Jul 2017, p.112]
  3. Drowned In Sound
    May 9, 2017
    90
    Each song tells its own story so intensely and so completely, like 11 musical horror novellas, that listening to any of them individually produces an experience more like that of listening to a shortish, intense, masterpiece-like album, especially as the songs often have a few different musical sections and ideas.
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