Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
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  1. Performed with a full backing band, which includes guitarist Dan Sullivan from Nad Navillus, Songs: Ohia stretches out on Fantasma, allowing Molina's songs to breathe but never sounding gratuitous, like a slightly subdued Crazy Horse.
  2. Fantasma offers a better introduction to Songs: Ohia than the last couple of proper albums.
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    Molina and cohorts turn their limited resources into an exercise in compelling minimalism. [#184, p.144]
  4. The Wire
    40
    Still sounds like the work of someone desperate to gain the approval of the Drag City clique. [#215, p.69]
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  1. RodrigoM
    Jul 3, 2005
    7
    Jason Molina's introspective folk-country rock sound gets raw and reaches superb moments like on the first track of the album, which Jason Molina's introspective folk-country rock sound gets raw and reaches superb moments like on the first track of the album, which offers a splendid change of rhythms with a beautiful distorted rock guitar passage. Full Review »