At Best Cuckold
by Avi Buffalo
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Sep 9, 2014
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. The_Tortoise
    May 17, 2020
    9
    This album is a hidden gem, and needs to be revisited!
    Some of the finest falsetto-filled dream-pop songs.
    Dozens of listens in, and I just enjoy it more and more. Avi's guitar playing is more melodic and complex than any that I've heard on a pop album. I can't believe what I'm hearing sometimes. I think the album is hurt slightly by the weak opener "So What". It's still a good    This album is a hidden gem, and needs to be revisited!
    Some of the finest falsetto-filled dream-pop songs.
    Dozens of listens in, and I just enjoy it more and more.
    Avi's guitar playing is more melodic and complex than any that I've heard on a pop album.
    I can't believe what I'm hearing sometimes.

    I think the album is hurt slightly by the weak opener "So What".
    It's still a good song.
    It just happens to be followed by an entire album of great tracks that deserve more love than they get.    … Expand

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. Magnet
    Nov 5, 2014
    50
    The emotional mood of At Best Cuckold never breaks away from the spell of his comfortable lethargy. [No. 114, p.53]
  2. musicOMH.com
    Sep 25, 2014
    70
    While At Best Cuckold is an album of entertaining truth and teenage legitimacy, and while its sprightly sound and pleasant air create a funny kind of optimism, it does not offer material that will sustain itself over time.
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  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Sep 16, 2014
    30
    Sometimes Avi Buffalo’s entrance into the gauntlet of the undisguised voice leads to a pretty song or two, maybe a moment of blissful pop; but more often than not, the songs whimper without much intelligible emotion.
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