Music's Not for Everyone
by Chain & the Gang
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. AllMusic
    Mar 3, 2011
    60
    Overall, it's a darker and more uneven album than the debut, but notwithstanding a few oddities (three reprises, and Arrington de Dionyso's Gregorian throat singing, namely), it's a respectable follow-up.
  2. CMJ
    Mar 3, 2011
    70
    The songs on Music Is Not For Everyone dance the incredibly thin line where they sound completely believable while the sarcasm still leaks through as subtly as a teenager's cologne.
  3. Pitchfork
    Apr 27, 2011
    66
    Music may lack the crazy ambition of his previous acts or some of the unexpected goofiness of the Gang's debut, but it's still a modest pleasure and a fine addition to Svenonius' catalog.
  5. PopMatters
    Mar 14, 2011
    70
    Svenonius' cockeyed worldview is much easier to take, and his jokes that much funnier, when he's not lecturing audiences.
  6. Spin
    Mar 3, 2011
    60
    When the band's clattering, it's great fun ("Why Not"), but leave the tongue-in-cheek (or is it?) spoken-word title track at home and release the rock instead.
  7. The New York Times
    Mar 3, 2011
    70
    It's meta and enigmatic and inconclusive; it's also very droll.
  8. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Mar 3, 2011
    40
    Relying heavily on posturing and tired song structures, lacking the incisive commentary and pointed humor that it strives for, Music's Not For Everyone is a record that fails on many fronts.
  9. Under The Radar
    Mar 9, 2011
    50
    Chain & the Gang sounds something like a slightly saner Captain Beefheart, a less arty Bongwater, or a whiter James Brown. [Feb 201, p.73]
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