Is the World Strange or Am I Strange?
by Cosmo Jarvis
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. Consequence
    Oct 26, 2011
    80
    A wacky, emotionally resonant collection of songs with the best kind of musical ADHD out there.
  2. PopMatters
    Mar 7, 2012
    70
    This is by no stretch a perfect album, but is one of the most imaginative and far-reaching ones you're likely to hear from an ostensibly mainstream pop artist this year.
  3. BBC Music
    Oct 26, 2011
    70
    Strange or otherwise, this is an intriguing but confused curate's egg of an album that will probably delight as many people as it repels.
  5. CMJ
    Oct 26, 2011
    70
    Jarvis finds his stride when singing about the uncomfortable.
  6. AllMusic
    Oct 26, 2011
    60
    Is the World Strange or Am I? is indeed a little too strange to achieve the commercial success Jarvis has admitted he craves, but it's an admirably bold statement of intent which is perhaps unlike anything else you'll hear all year.
  7. Q Magazine
    Dec 14, 2011
    40
    It's his intermittent, embarrassing rapping [that is the problem]. [Oct 2011, p.113]
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  8. New Musical Express (NME)
    Oct 26, 2011
    10
    [A] perplexing and risible album.

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