Weather
by Me'Shell Ndegéocello
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. AllMusic
    Nov 22, 2011
    90
    Ndegeocello is making some of the finest music of her life.
  2. BBC Music
    Nov 30, 2011
    80
    Ultimately, this extremely curious album requires several airings to achieve an improved view, and a confirmation of its secretive charms.
  3. Boston Globe
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    It adds up to an album of left-field soul that's downcast but not at all a bummer.
  5. CMJ
    Nov 8, 2011
    80
    An audacious compilation of carefully arranged instrumentals under reflective lyrics.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Nov 15, 2011
    91
    Weather reflects a bracingly tough-minded attitude toward love. [18 Nov 2011, p.103]
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  7. Mojo
    Jun 28, 2012
    80
    Weather is so deftly under-produced that you turn it up; so hazy and intimate you're drawn in close. [Jan 2012, p.98]
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  8. Okayplayer
    Feb 13, 2012
    90
    Weather is a beautiful album and the most intimate project we've heard from Ndegeocello in the last few years.
  9. PopMatters
    Nov 28, 2011
    80
    Weather presents a vastly sophisticated and mature songwriter who has managed to put aside her need to stand on the soap box and declare her political and social ideals.
  10. Slant Magazine
    Nov 7, 2011
    90
    She's always been an insightful and empathetic observer of the human condition, but Weather is such a heady album because of how unflinchingly Ndegeocello has turned her keen observational eyes toward herself.
  11. Spin
    Nov 7, 2011
    80
    Every musical stroke is a concise yet instinctive caress.
  12. The Guardian
    Nov 7, 2011
    80
    Ndegéocello's work has often been heavy with mood while elliptical of songcraft, but Weather contains her most direct material since the early 1990s
  13. The New York Times
    Nov 7, 2011
    80
    Weather is her most consistently strong album in some time, a product of vision and discipline.
  14. Village Voice
    Nov 17, 2011
    80
    With Weather, Ndegeocello shows how she's poised to follow Animal Collective down the rabbit hole and into a promised land of greater musical freedom.

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70
#70 Best Album of 2011

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