User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7

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  1. MattiasJ.
    Oct 14, 2001
    9
    A great album, from b to the end...a good friend in my car.
  2. KyanL
    Dec 22, 2002
    10
    This album is awesome. I loved it the first time I heard it. True The The fans will appreciate this album the most.
  3. theG
    Mar 10, 2002
    3
    Well... at least it's not as bad as "Hanky Panky"....
  4. EikeS.
    Mar 23, 2002
    9
    Music to lose yourself in and merge with it - a soundtrack to a dream
  5. MisterK
    Aug 25, 2002
    9
    Must be listened to between sunset and sunrise to be fully appreciated. A fresh, intense, melodic experience. This band has unstoppable vitality.
  6. StillCloser
    Nov 12, 2007
    9
    It seems that Matt Johnson was a little bit tired of commercial songs and fall back to his roots. The album is a little hard to grab at a first hearing. Like almost all Matt's albums, it grows up everytime we heard it. It seems the perfect soundtrack for George Orwell's 1984.
  7. ScottM.
    Dec 11, 2007
    3
    Melody and harmony are almost completely absent. Some of the lyrics are embarrassing ("Kentucky fried genocide" deserves to be repeated?).
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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Checkout.com
    90
    On Naked Self, Johnson hasn't let up one bit. His tongue is as sharp as ever, and his songs show that updating one's style doesn't have to mean dressing in this year's airwave fashions.
  2. NakedSelf feels more like a transition than a treatise, like a little bit less when more is actually called for.
  3. NakedSelf finds him returning to the slow-burn industrial grind of his best work.