• Record Label: Orchard
  • Release Date: Mar 19, 2021
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Apr 21, 2021
    80
    Phillips and her band of brothers have created their own cinematic universe, full of sleazy B-movie villains and femme fatales, a world where glamour and sleaze, heartbreak and redemption walk side by side. But Written and Directed expands that hyper-real world, with horns, choirs, crashing guitars, and the occasional foray into New Wave pop (“Back of the Bar”) and is perhaps the album they were born to make.
  2. Mar 18, 2021
    80
    ‘Written & Directed’ sees the quartet evolving into the rock outfit they’d always threatened to be.
  3. 80
    ‘Written And Directed’ is a thrilling step up from a band quietly coming into their own.
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 18, 2021
    70
    Their sugar-coated badass swagger might be toothless and adolescent, but sometimes teenage dreams are hard to beat. [Mar 2021, p.87]
User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Mar 22, 2021
    8
    Blends rock and alt together to make some good tracks, if not interesting at least.