Between Two Shores
by Glen Hansard
  • Record Label: Anti-
  • Release Date: Jan 19, 2018
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. The Skinny
    Jan 26, 2018
    60
    Between Two Shores is another Glen Hansard album filled with good songs, gorgeous music and gregarious singing. Is that enough? You decide.
  2. Q Magazine
    Jan 17, 2018
    60
    Hansard's elastic vocals hit all the right notes. Missing, however, is an earthiness that could take these polished songs to another level. [Feb 2018, p.111]
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  3. The Independent (UK)
    Jan 17, 2018
    60
    While the one-sided “Heart’s Not In It” is crippled by blame-laying, “One Of Us Will Lose” is an edifice of aching melancholy, with streaks of slide guitar threading currents of loss and despair through its descent into the depths.
  5. Pitchfork
    Jan 22, 2018
    57
    Between Two Shores was cobbled together out of songs left over from past sessions and home demos. This helps explain the album’s lack of focus. What’s missing is a singular idea for a listener to rest her headphones on. Instead, we get a hodgepodge of sentimental tunes that aren’t quite parallel, perpendicular, or adjacent to each other.
  6. PopMatters
    Feb 7, 2018
    50
    It's a decent record, even good. But am I going to be able to remember any of these songs in two months without playing them first? Experience says probably not.

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User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Ricko
    Jun 23, 2018
    7
    There was a time, at the turn of the century when Glen Hansard's songwriting, at that time as the leaser of art rock band The Frames, couldThere was a time, at the turn of the century when Glen Hansard's songwriting, at that time as the leaser of art rock band The Frames, could only be described as mercurial. Although he has won an Oscar in the mid 00's, I feel that since 2001's immaculate "For The Birds" album, Hansard has struggled to produce the brilliance which seemed to come so easily for a period. He has made several very good records and 2012's excellent "Rhythm and Repose" hinted that there was still a bit of fire in the belly but overall, my general impression is that Hansard's writing has become unmemorable for the most part. "Between Two Shores" is one of those good but slightly boring albums. A good album but when it comes from a man who has written one of my all time favourite albums, simply good ends up being disappointing. Hansard used to put his whole being into his work, no doubt sacrificing much in the process. "Between Two Shores" is as far away from this that Hansard has ever been.… Full Review »
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