• Record Label: N/A
  • Release Date: Jan 19, 2018
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Jan 24, 2018
    80
    It’s not an album made for background listening, it’s made for losing yourself in completely, and, in that, it succeeds perfectly.
  2. Jan 17, 2018
    80
    Insular, yes, but in being laid bare it speaks with a strong purpose.
  3. Jan 24, 2018
    70
    Passover may be an album of grieving, but it is not beholden to the process. While many albums of loss are as hard to hear as they are beautiful, Shields has opted for a somewhat more welcoming approach.
  4. Q Magazine
    Feb 13, 2018
    60
    [Passover] can be frustratingly sparse in places. [Apr 2018, p.106]
  5. Jan 19, 2018
    60
    It’s easy to appreciate and admire, but difficult to enjoy.
  6. Mojo
    Jan 17, 2018
    60
    Nervy, fragile set. [Feb 2018, p.99]
  7. Uncut
    Jan 17, 2018
    60
    The lyrics seem to be obsessed with mortality and the effect it has on families. [Feb 2018, p.23]
  8. Jan 17, 2018
    60
    While his words do occasionally come to the fore, such as on the emotional Wren, the questions Shields raises surrounding religion and ceremony, the elemental and the domestic, can feel secondary to the atmosphere. Passover captures the spectre of death, but its existential meditations can be obscured.

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