Wilderness
by Archer Prewitt
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13

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  1. JackW
    Mar 3, 2005
    6
    Each of the songs on the album have a rambling quality that prevents them from forming cohesive wholes. These are not pop songs traditionally crafted and melodically there is little that unites each composition. I find myself drifting off listening to this, not from relaxation but boredom. The songs don't strike me as particularly insightful nor beautiful. the pottery barn comment Each of the songs on the album have a rambling quality that prevents them from forming cohesive wholes. These are not pop songs traditionally crafted and melodically there is little that unites each composition. I find myself drifting off listening to this, not from relaxation but boredom. The songs don't strike me as particularly insightful nor beautiful. the pottery barn comment seems apt, but even here the songs lack the melodic robustness of norah jones style crooning.… Expand
  2. zebobh
    Jan 25, 2005
    6
    Prewitt is the type to win critic's praise: always tasteful, always hip. There is nothing offensive here, nor anything all that exciting. Indie blandness mitigated somewhat by great arrangements and textures. What critics consistently fail to note is that great arrangements do not make great songs.
  3. KCCK
    Feb 15, 2005
    6
    I would not be surprised to hear this on a Pottery Barn compilation, or playing in the store. That's what people mean by inoffensive. And yes, that it is. Tasteful and inoffensive. Which do not a classic album make. It's a good easy listening CD for the jilted generation, and doesn't bother to transcend the genre.

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#57 Best Album of 2005

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Languidly pretty. [21 Jan 2005, p.88]
  2. Stylus Magazine
    100
    Wilderness is Prewitt’s most accomplished solo effort to date. He has craftily corralled the large scale orchestral sweep of White Sky, but kept the intimacy of the guitar/voice confessionalism of Gerroa Songs.
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  3. PopMatters
    70
    Prewitt combines the low-key melancholia of Nick Drake with the symphonic aspirations of Brian Wilson.
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