Oh, Fortune
by Dan Mangan
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6.5

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
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  1. BrowSpencer
    Jun 29, 2012
    0
    This album is great because it sweeps you through a great fluid motion of feelings within linked songs. If I'm feeling sad this album will make me sadder, but I'll then turn happy realizing the album had such powerful movements and then I would listen to it again, and I would have the same experience. The album is a roller coaster of emotion that goes up and down many times and it neverThis album is great because it sweeps you through a great fluid motion of feelings within linked songs. If I'm feeling sad this album will make me sadder, but I'll then turn happy realizing the album had such powerful movements and then I would listen to it again, and I would have the same experience. The album is a roller coaster of emotion that goes up and down many times and it never stops until its all over. LIKE low everything he's made, and this was his best piece of art.… Expand

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Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Q Magazine
    Dec 22, 2011
    80
    Dan Mangan here serves up the welcome alternative [to other alt-folkies.] [Jan 2012, p.123]
  2. Uncut
    Dec 12, 2011
    80
    Highlights include the waltzing "About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All" and a breathless canter through the Broken Social Scene stylings of "Post-War Blues." [Jan 2012, p.93]
  3. BBC Music
    Dec 7, 2011
    70
    It's a set that does reward investigation, perhaps not with lasting love but certainly first-few-plays impressions which will last into the New Year.
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