• Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Feb 11, 2014
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Negative: 3 out of 22

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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Feb 21, 2014
    70
    This might be cynicism, but pop music is as much about the sizzle as it is about the steak, and no one plays both ends against the middle as efficiently as Church.
  2. Feb 20, 2014
    60
    An album with a radical spirit but a conservative heart.
  3. Feb 12, 2014
    70
    The more pedestrian half of this album effectively tests whether Mr. Church sings these sorts of songs with more authority, or more vision, than his contemporaries--in essence, whether he’s allowed to get away with it, whether he’s somehow earned the right. Generally, the answer is no. One argument in his favor, though: He knows how to tip his beat-up ball cap to the road most traveled and then peel off onto a back alley.... And Mr. Church is nothing if not a wise songwriter.