Based on 10 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 80 to 91.
By the numbers: All 10 critics liked it, and the lowest score was 80, from AllMusic. The third best-reviewed Indie & Alternative album of 2018 we've tracked.
| The gist | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entertainment Weekly via Wikipediaby Leah Greenblatt | A- | 91 | ||
| The A.V. Club via Wikipediaby Matt Williams | B+ | 88 | 2018 | “Father John Misty, LUMP, The Dreebs, and more albums to know about this week” |
| Pitchfork via Wikipediaby Jeremy D. Larson | 8.5/10 | 85 | 2018 | “Josh Tillman is still self-absorbed. But his fourth full-length as Father John Misty exhibits a new sense of empathy and vulnerability while losing none of his wit.” |
| Rolling Stone via Wikipediaby David Fricke | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | “Father John Misty, sardonic Seventies-loving singer-songwriter, a.k.a. Josh Tillman, recalls 'Imagine,' 'Mind Games,' and other retro-pop touchstones” |
| Q via Wikipediaby John Harris | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | |
| NME via Wikipediaby Robin Murray | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | “The party is over and the guests have departed; light is streaming, streaming through the curtains, and there’s no one, no one at home. All except your not-so-humble narrator, ‘God’s…” |
| The Guardian via Wikipediaby Michael Hann | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | “Josh Tillman’s latest feels rootless and desolate, as if he is compromised by his work, as his voice sounds at its most warm and approachable” |
| The Independent via Wikipediaby Ilana Kaplan | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | “In this week's roundup, Father John Misty takes a humble look at the times we live in, and Laura Marling partners up with Mike Lindsay” |
| Mojo via Wikipediaby Victoria Segal | 4/5 | 80 | 2018 | |
| AllMusic via Wikipediaby Stephen Thomas Erlewine | 4/5 | 80 |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Approval is the share of critics who scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not how many critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Published is the date on the review itself, read from the outlet’s page, so you can see whether an album’s reputation came at release or years later. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number. Scores marked via Wikipedia are archive ratings, mostly for older albums, taken from the “Professional ratings” box on the album’s Wikipedia page (published openly through Wikidata); each links to the original review when we can find it online, and to that Wikipedia entry when we can’t. When an outlet reviewed an album twice, years apart (often for a reissue), both scores count, each labeled with its year.
A-Side marks the critics’ top tier. An album earns it automatically, from its numbers alone: a Breakdown of 90 or higher, from at least 5 reviews, with at least 75% approval. Nobody hands it out and nobody can buy it; if new reviews pull an album below the line, it loses the badge.
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