• Record Label: Yep Roc
  • Release Date: Feb 23, 2018
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Feb 22, 2018
    80
    Full of heart, courage, and passion, Widdershins finds Grant-Lee Phillips going from strength to strength after The Narrows, and it ranks with his best solo efforts.
  2. Feb 21, 2018
    80
    Widdershins may be one of those albums we play in a few years' time when we're having a "did that really happen?" moment. The great thing is, that regardless of the subject matter it's a fine piece of work.
  3. Feb 20, 2018
    80
    All told, it’s a finely wrought collection that could appeal to fans of The Decemberists or Vetiver as much as some of those longer-in-the-tooth bands.
  4. Uncut
    Feb 1, 2018
    80
    A career highlight in low times. [Mar 2018, p.31]
  5. 80
    Locating the sweet spot where spontaneity and polish meet, Widdershins swings in all the right directions.
  6. Feb 1, 2018
    80
    Phillips’ melodies are solid and simplistically accessible, never swamping the lyric’s articulate message; protest songs have rarely been so polite in their persuasiveness.
  7. Magnet
    Apr 17, 2018
    70
    He's most successful when stripping down his lyrical ideas and melodic underpinnings to their simplest expressions, in a live-in-the-studio trio format. [No. 150, p.55]

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