For All I Care
by The Bad Plus
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The Guardian
    60
    There's less jazz improv, but it's a set that's going to find the Bad Plus a lot of new friends, and recover some old ones.
  2. Uncut
    60
    Here they continue their mission with bashes at Wilco, Pink Floyd, and a straight-but-great take on Yes' 'Long Distance Runaround.' [Dec 2008, p.81]
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  3. Under The Radar
    60
    For All I Care, the trio’s first all-covers album, underscores their capacity for democratizing yet again, but the fitful ease of amalgamating Ligeti’s stark neoclassicism ('Fem (Etude No. 8)') with Heart’s goofy lilt ('Barracuda') sounds too harmless, with or without a powerful singer. [Winter 2009]
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  5. The A.V. Club
    58
    If anything, the group's sixth studio disc is a little too reverent, not so much on the instrumentals as on the pop-song covers.
  6. PopMatters
    40
    In the end, For All I Care isn’t a bad album. It’s just a very unremarkable effort from a band that we’ve grown to expect so much more from.

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