Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
by Bright Eyes
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 77 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 77
  3. Negative: 6 out of 77

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  1. All_ButTrU4
    May 20, 2022
    4
    A bloated excessive indie record that is crushed not only by it's ambitions but it's bands limited range. They can't do much so instead they recycle themselves over and over expecting you to endure them for no benefit.
  2. MultipleMiggs
    Aug 28, 2002
    5
    The most overrated album in a long time. Cliched lyrics, overwrought singing, and an overall lack of songs.

Awards & Rankings

77
#77 Best Album of 2002
26
#26 Most Discussed Album of 2002
47
#47 Most Shared Album of 2002

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    70
    Untrustworthy, confused, touching and idiotically ambitious; hard work that, undoubtedly, repays the effort.
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  2. Neumu.net
    60
    It is, in such, truly great, or truly arrogant, or truly conceited, or truly preposterous, or truly confused, or truly bemused, or truly profound, or truly magnificent. Or maybe all of these things. At once. Or at times.
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  3. Pitchfork
    77
    Love it or hate it, the precious, nasal vibrato Oberst affects is the tie that binds all these varied tunes together in the end, and in most cases, it compliments the music admirably.
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