I Like to Keep Myself in Pain
by Kelly Hogan
  • Record Label: Anti
  • Release Date: Jun 5, 2012
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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
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  1. Q Magazine
    Jul 25, 2012
    60
    The key track is We Can't Have Nice Things, envisaged by its writer as a George Jones lost love ballad, an turned into a gripping country soul psychodrama. [Aug 2012, p.96]
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  2. NOW Magazine
    Jun 21, 2012
    60
    The diversity leaves it without a consistent mood or conceptual through-line, however, and while Hogan's singing voice is, like the album, pleasant enough, it's not especially distinct or memorable.
  3. Pitchfork
    Jun 19, 2012
    60
    This is a merely pleasant album, and especially after 11 long years, pleasant is a low hurdle for such an inimitable singer.

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  1. AlexxTrusc
    Jun 18, 2012
    7
    Kelly Hogan being an artist of Neko Casse's backing band, has just released her fifth in career and first for over eleven years album, whoseKelly Hogan being an artist of Neko Casse's backing band, has just released her fifth in career and first for over eleven years album, whose greatest strength are undoubtedly lyrics. The album represented by tracks like "Golden" and "Sympathy Slumbers" shows their pop nature, but usually in a somewhat minimalist style - even by the occasion of exuberant songs - which is undoubtedly in the case of the artist a good move.… Full Review »
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