• Record Label: Rounder
  • Release Date: Jul 30, 2002
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Blender
    60
    Thompson's pure, effortlessly soaring vocals feel undimmed by time. [#9, p.156]
  2. Nearly everything on Fashionably Late has a pristinely modulated solemnity, a refined, literal-minded perfection.... In a sense, Fashionably Late is too good--too enamored of the aesthetic straight and narrow, of reverse sentimentality--for its own good.
  3. Uncut
    60
    A return that is as warmly welcome as it is wholly unexpected. [Oct 2002, p.122]
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. MartinE
    Dec 2, 2002
    9
    How wonderful to see Linda Thompson back and on such devastating form. A really refreshing change from the manufactured rubbish put out by How wonderful to see Linda Thompson back and on such devastating form. A really refreshing change from the manufactured rubbish put out by most of the latest breed of acoustic bands. Full Review »