• Record Label: Anyway
  • Release Date: Oct 21, 2016
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  1. Dec 21, 2016
    9
    Intellectual, highly irregular, and catchy as hell. This is an excellent follow-up to his debut, and I can't recommend it enough. Listen to it (and the debut, for that matter) the whole way through; you won't be disappointed.
  2. Aug 19, 2020
    9
    An absolute classic. After putting it down for a bit, now that we're in the middle of a pandemic at the end of a long four years, I can't help but coming back to this. A brilliant take on what it means to grow up in America told through powerful lyrics and a few beats that are hard to get out of your head. Absolutely recommend this (and all his albums before and since).
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Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

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  1. Dec 19, 2016
    80
    The personal songs, about Choi’s dissatisfactory early education and immigrant family, have a whiff of mythic American meta-story, while the historical ones are deeply felt and eccentric.
  2. Dec 19, 2016
    80
    side from the cultural relevance of his lyrics, Choi's songwriting is catchy, vibrant, and brimming with melody and moxie on this excellent follow-up.
  3. Dec 19, 2016
    60
    It’s an odd little record, a kind of confessional chronicle that gradually gets under your skin. In this era of fractured self-identification, Ten Hymns From My American Gothic nicely serves as a soundtrack for all the searchers and seekers out there.