Pussycat
by Juliana Hatfield
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
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  1. brufrog
    Dec 16, 2017
    9
    All Juliana Hatfield's records are good to great, but she seems to have hit on a really good thing here with this Trump takedown. It isn't just that the cutting lyrics are so timely; the songs and hooks are really memorable, and it is quite a singable record. It's a perfect response to that ****

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#57 Best Album of 2017

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. The Wire
    Aug 9, 2017
    80
    Pussycat is as excoriating and pitiless as anything Jenny Hval has produced to date and just as unflinching in its analysis of gender politics (the Wire-ish “Sex Machine” manages to be funny, poignant and upsetting) plus Hatfield cranks out some cathartic Ragged Glory solos (which could easily go on for twice as long as they do) and proves herself a fearlessly uninhibited vocal stylist to boot. Good work. [Aug 2017, p.61]
  2. AllMusic
    May 25, 2017
    80
    Hatfield is protesting Trump because he offends her personally, and the specificity of her outrage makes Pussycat an unusually powerful protest album.
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  3. Magnet
    May 18, 2017
    80
    The toxic muse behind Pussycat's bitter melodies and crunchy guitar solos is recognizable as the man who's made so many of us feel as dejected as a woman in a Hatfield song. [No. 142, p.57]
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