It's Frightening
by
  • Record Label:
  • Release Date:
It's Frightening Image
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

Your Score
0 out of 10
Rate this:
  • 10
  • 9
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0
  • 0
  • Summary: The second album for the band was produced by Spoon's Britt Daniel.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. The A.V. Club
    91
    At 10 songs and 35 minutes, there’s no filler, not even on the obligatory final comedown 'Leave It At The Door,' which is all fluttery woodwinds and exhaustion.
  2. Filter
    82
    This makes for an important sophomore release that is even more sweepingly seductive than "Fort Nightly." [Spring 2009, p.92]
    All this publication's reviews
  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    Daniel justly brings the band’s best attributes to the foreground and It’s Frightening ends up being a tight and concise album.
  4. Rolling Stone
    70
    The only instruments that aren't slaves to the beat are Gregory Roberts and Stephen Patterson's vocals, which mingle into perfectly messy harmonies.
  5. PopMatters
    70
    Always on the verge, but never quite becoming too polished, It’s Frightening is an exciting step forward from a group that would appear to have a masterpiece to deliver somewhere down the line.
  6. Tiny Mix Tapes
    60
    It’s Frightening is far from a bloodless copy of a more vivid being; it is, rather, a living, breathing creation, one that is only dubiously theirs.
  7. Slant Magazine
    50
    More often than not, It's Frightening is caught on middling ground, at once striving to be unpretentious while still hoping to challenge listeners' expectations. The album accomplishes neither, however, as the band's aversion to let sound fall where it may produces little beyond impressions of gloppy heavy-handedness and obtuse haze.

See all 22 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. BrianC
    Mar 9, 2012
    10
    Alongside with The Heavy's House that Dirt Built, and Mariachi El Bronx I, this was of the 3 best albums of 2009. A fantastic record thatAlongside with The Heavy's House that Dirt Built, and Mariachi El Bronx I, this was of the 3 best albums of 2009. A fantastic record that I've listened to over and over, many times.… Expand
  2. NicholasS
    May 23, 2009
    9
    Ever since discovering this band's near perfect debut, "Fort Nightly", I couldn't wait for them to finish their much-talked about Ever since discovering this band's near perfect debut, "Fort Nightly", I couldn't wait for them to finish their much-talked about second record, "It's Frightening". Although the record is not perfect, they have focused in on their craft and have found their sound this time. The record is a breath of fresh air in a world where critics are on the edge of the seat waiting for the next Green Day record.… Expand
  4. DanF.
    May 20, 2009
    8
    It's missing some of the spunk of "Fort Nightly" (which was a 9 for me), but it is nonetheless a great album. "Midnight And I" is my It's missing some of the spunk of "Fort Nightly" (which was a 9 for me), but it is nonetheless a great album. "Midnight And I" is my favourite track.… Expand

Current Music Releases

Full List »
100 Revolver Special Edition (Super Deluxe) [Box Set] - The Beatles
100 Live and Dangerous [Super Deluxe Edition] - Thin Lizzy
93 Desire, I Want To Turn into You - Caroline Polachek
92 Divine Symmetry: The Journey to Hunky Dory [Box Set] - David Bowie
91 Travel - The Necks
91 Live at the Whisky 1977 [Box Set] - Cheap Trick
90 S.O.S. - SZA
90 Manzanita - Shana Cleveland
90 False Lankum - Lankum
89 Live at the Fillmore, 1997 - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
88 12 - Ryuichi Sakamoto
88 Angel Numbers - Hamish Hawk
88 Angels & Queens, Pt. 1 - Gabriels
88 The Hypnogogue - The Church
88 King's Disease III - Nas
87 Indigo - RM
87 YTILAER - Bill Callahan
87 Congregation - Witch Fever
87 The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17: Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997 - Bob Dylan
87 And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow - Weyes Blood
All Current Music »