Giving Up The Ghost
by Windsor For The Derby
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. AllMusic
    80
    For all its faraway humming and quietly steady pace, Windsor for the Derby has still made a "band" album.
  2. Junkmedia
    80
    There is some irony in following up a record called We Fight Til Death with one titled (and as vital as) Giving Up The Ghost. However, Windsor For The Derby doesn't sound as if it has succumbed to anything save for its singular atmospheric pop tendencies.
  3. Dusted Magazine
    80
    Far from snuffing out, Windsor For The Derby sounds like a band with a new lease on life.
  5. Pitchfork
    68
    May stand as the band's most focused disc to date.
  6. PopMatters
    50
    Giving up the Ghost is the type of album to play as background music at a party when no one has to pay too much attention to it. Then afterwards, everyone remembers how hip and cool the music sounded. It's often propulsive, sometimes memorable, but only half extraordinary.
  7. Stylus Magazine
    42
    Ghost lacks the dynamic swing of much of their past material, content to move towards unnecessary cohesion, one that takes all the wide-pupil joy out of their songs.
  8. Austin Chronicle
    40
    An album full of promise but low on result.

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. chritiand
    Nov 8, 2005
    10
    I've been a fan forever and love how this record is so in line with their others but also really different.
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