Sleeping On Roads
by Neil Halstead
  • Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Jan 22, 2002
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Dot Music
    80
    The aching sensitivity of many of these lonely acoustic compositions is balanced against an inventive backdrop of instrumentation.
  2. PopMatters
    80
    This is the stuff of classic sad-bastard pop music, but the arrangements elevate this to a different, more interesting level.
  3. E! Online
    75
    A few more tangible melodies would have gone down well, but the overall mood is magnificent.
  5. Mojo
    70
    The same drifting mood is maintained from start to finish, all nine songs being gently eclectic acoustic musings with occasional electronic decorations. [Apr 2002, p.101]
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  6. Nude As The News
    70
    A gentle tremble of an album.
  7. Splendid
    70
    Sleeping on Roads is both more subdued and more universally poppy than anything Mojave 3 has released to date.
  8. Pitchfork
    65
    Taking into account the sometimes spotty songwriting and its overtly dreamy similarities to Mojave 3 (like if they'd had a back massage and 1200mg's of Valium), there isn't much to save it from solo slump status.

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. tagzeitblau
    Feb 15, 2002
    7
    i love it. i should go on a road-trip with it : - )
  2. DirkE.
    Feb 10, 2002
    8
    This is tenderness...