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61 out of 100

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7.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: The sophomore solo album for Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello was produced with Brendan O'Brien.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    The Rage Against the Machine guitarist's remarkable transformation from purveyor of weapons-grade funk-metal riffs into introspective protest folkie yields even more impressive fruit on his second solo effort The Fabled City.
  2. Rolling Stone
    60
    Lyrically, Morello still goes over the top, piling on biblical references and Dylanesque nonsense like "one-eyed crow, tappin' on the windowpane." But with a solid band behind him, he seems much more confident in his new role as a modern protest troubadour.
  3. PopMatters
    30
    Thus the biggest flaw on The Fabled City lies not within the music, but with the brusque seriousness of Morello's rhetoric and delivery that veers dangerously close to self-parody.

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  1. imthenoob
    4
    Its an improvement over the first album without a doubt but its still pretty poor. The first 3 tracks were good but everything after that (with the except of 2 others, I liked only 5 songs off the album) were trash and just as bad as his first album. Still its an improvement but not by much, IMO - Tom should stop this solo trash because its ruining his career.… Expand
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