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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: Thrill Jockey releases the New York duo's sixth album.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 29
  2. Negative: 2 out of 29
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    A gas, a blast. [12 Oct 2007, p.75]
  2. Spin
    80
    Widow City goes on for a while--maybe too long. But it's quite a trip [Oct 2007, p.106]
  3. Widow City's major accomplishment is how it captures the band's live power and sheds some of their mannered studio sound. It rocks hard, and often.
  4. It all sounds cleaner and more accessible than anything they've done in the past, but that might actually be part of the problem.
  5. Widow City covers so much territory so quickly that it can actually give you jetlag, and its geographical diversity is mirrored by its hallucinatory, irreconcilable lyrics.
  6. Widow City is wordy, nerdy, and throws in everything but the hurdy-gurdy.
  7. The remainder of the 16-song, hourlong question mark is emphatic spoken word hurled over a sound check--pretentious, superfluous, and ultimately unlistenable.

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