The Excitement Plan
by Todd Snider
  • Record Label: Yep Roc
  • Release Date: Jun 9, 2009
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
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#31 Best Album of 2009

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
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  1. PopMatters
    80
    Playing to Snider’s considerable strengths at playful familiarity, Was keeps the flourishes to a minimum, pulling the vocals to the fore and dropping the rest back in the mix. Though the sidemen are illustrious (Jim Keltner and Greg Leisz for God’s sake) they aren’t here to show off, but rather to advance the man at the centre. It all works beautifully.
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  2. Billboard
    80
    Todd Snider relates his hilariously heartbreaking hard-luck tales with a deadpan sing-speak delivery while superproducer Don Was gives the scrappy bar-band arrangements a glimmer of studio-pro warmth.
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  3. AllMusic
    70
    It's unrelentingly grim, relieved only by Snider's dark humor.
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