• Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: May 19, 2009
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 14
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  1. It's a well-made, well-polished piece of material. But she ruins it by painting a wacky overcoat over something that was probably fine in the first place.
  2. While it sometimes does become a bit too overwrought, those people who found Tori Amos' vignettes so compelling will find much to love here. It helps as well that there's a light pop touch on many of the tracks.
  3. Performed alone at the piano, Scattergood's debut would be nearly unbearable, but the widescreen production of soundtrack specialist Simon Fisher Turner goes a long way towards taking the edge off her sixth-form Plathisms and dignifying her emotional melodrama.