Personal Record
by Eleanor Friedberger
  • Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Jun 4, 2013
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. jyo_tirmaya
    Dec 8, 2013
    9
    Eleanor Friedberger gives us a nice breeze of indie-pop perfection. Somehow, without her group The Fiery Furnaces, she rocks with a more easy freedom. It's very pleasant as it doesn't sound forced as even some of The Fiery Furnaces albums did. These are the kinds of songs that I am looking for big stars like Katy Perry to be writing, but instead they are writing as though they are littleEleanor Friedberger gives us a nice breeze of indie-pop perfection. Somehow, without her group The Fiery Furnaces, she rocks with a more easy freedom. It's very pleasant as it doesn't sound forced as even some of The Fiery Furnaces albums did. These are the kinds of songs that I am looking for big stars like Katy Perry to be writing, but instead they are writing as though they are little girls still in high school. And I'm supposed to be excited by a possible romance between Katy and some other superstar singer. I don't want news of romances and blase music. I just want good music written and sung nicely as Eleanor does on this album.… Expand
  2. malchickles
    Jun 6, 2013
    8
    Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good.

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Blurt Magazine
    Jul 3, 2013
    80
    An album full of fresh twists and turns, musically and lyrically, and a song cycle full of melody and surprise.
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  2. No Ripcord
    Jul 1, 2013
    40
    What we have here is an album’s worth of incredibly passive, indifferent music-making.
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  3. cokemachineglow
    Jun 21, 2013
    70
    Personal Record doesn’t always have the focus and sense of place that made Last Summer great, but it’s pop music on a grander scale, both in sound and theme.
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