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Figure 8

by Elliott Smith

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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 3.1495 Figure 8 is ranked overall as 3.1495 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.1527 Figure 8 has an avg. critic score of 3.1527 out of 4 stars

Figure 8 Album Reviews

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Excellent
4
 
(5)
Very Good
3
 
(16)
Good
2
 
(1)
Fair
1
 
(0)
Poor
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(4)

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Entertainment Weekly
No longer a slave to low-budget production values since he left behind indie labels, Elliott Smith surrounds his pasty-skinned voice with saloon pianos, polite garage-band bashings, crisp jangles, and dark-castle chamber pop on his latest, ''Figure ...more
All Music Guide
Even if it is a very impressive statement overall, Figure 8 isn't quite the masterpiece it wants to be -- there's something about the pacing that just makes the record feel long... ...more
Rolling Stone
For all their harmonic convolutions and tucked-away chorales, the arrangements exude modesty, without the arena-size inflation of Beatle-fan bands like Oasis... ...more
Rolling Stone
Fans who hang on every word and every note. A major-label contract. Enough laudatory reviews to wallpaper the palace at Versailles. Even an Oscar nomination. ...more
All Music Guide
Judging only by his earlier, bare-bones indie-label albums, it seemed highly unlikely that Elliott Smith would turn into the ambitious arranger and studio craftsman of his lushly textured Dreamworks debut,XO. ...more
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Checkout.com
It's a sweeping, gorgeous masterwork that draws upon a collage of pop flavors from the last four decades, brightly burning the eternal singer/songwriter flame and touching down for a couple of power pop punches....read the complete review at Checkout.com
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Q Magazine
Most riveting are the ballads, where he conveys a devastating truth with conversational ease....read the complete review at Q Magazine
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New York Magazine
Smith is capable of subtle introspection, but too many of his new songs sound like the self-pitying complaints of an adolescent venting in his diary....read the complete review at New York Magazine
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The A.V. Club
Elliott Smith resides in a fascinating pop-cultural place: He's a painfully shy critics' darling with indie-rock cachet, but he's also taken a bow on the Academy Awards stage while standing between Trisha Yearwood and Celine Dion. That more or less sums...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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