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Face the Truth
by Stephen Malkmus
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.2711
Avg. Critic Score:
3.0833
Face the Truth Rank 3 Reviews
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PitchforkBehind this happy clash of stylistic preferences is a subtly but surely revivified Malkmus, confident to experiment more deliberately than ever. ...more
Glorious NoiseHis work has always had an air of tossed-off brilliance, but now it feels like polite brilliance. That just cant go on forever. Happy he may be, but the laconic smartass-indie-rocker surely cant just offer us politeness for the rest of his career. ...more
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)Consistently enjoyable, predictably inconsequential. ...more
Stylus MagazineWith the Fiery Furnaces bringing indie-prog rigmarole back in fashion, Face The Truth might get a little more love than Pig Lib did, despite being the same album with a few more fart sounds. ...more
StylusMagazineMalkmus will probably never drop the oddball shtick entirely - its both his defense mechanism and date bait-but America could use its own Robyn Hitchcock, especially one who cares whether his drummer can drum. ...more
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Tiny Mix TapesFace the Truth won me over by showing all the sides of Steve that drew me to him in the first place, along with a few new surprises. ...more
musicOMH.comPig Lib Part Two? Maybe so, but there are enough subtle evolutions here to keep any SM follower listening intently until the cows come home. ...more
PlaylouderMalkmus seems to be firing on all cylinders for the first time as a solo artist. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)Malkmus has long made a game of languishing, but he now sounds refreshingly eager to turn off the scoreboard and let his songs coach themselves. ...more
cokemachineglowHe’s back in the groove here: relaxed, confident, weird in his own special way, smart, and ready to make great albums again. ...more
PrefixMagGone are the spotty moments that marred his previous solo work. Most important, Malkmus seems to be having fun again. ...more
New York MagazineThe songs, which have the choppy angles and elegant dissonance of Pavement’s, are painstakingly layered with keyboards and all manner of funky blurps and beeps. It all sounds very labor-intensive—and pretty smart, too. ...more
PlaylouderSomeone must have had a word with Stephen Malkmus. Told him that he couldn't just sit there for the rest of his life being arch and sarcastic like some dandy from the court of Louis XVI trapped in a bog standard indie band; spitting aggravating ...more
PrefixMagOf all the characters in today's musical landscape, Stephen Malkmus likely has the most reason to phone in an album at this point in his career. For starters, he has one leg over the midlife fence, and seeming domesticity in his foreseeable future with a ...more
PrefixMagClocking in at just more than forty minutes, Face the Truth is a tight, well-paced album. Six years into his solo career, it seems that Stephen Malkmus is hitting his stride. ...more
FakeJazzThis is a fun album. Its catchy and full of hooks and there are some pretty songs too. The rock stuff is even good. ...more
SplendidezineThat said, dont be surprised if, after playing it for the third or fourth time, you arent singing one of Malkmuss latest tunes, but quietly humming BB Kings "The Thrill is Gone". ...more
ShakingThrough.netFace the Truth is paradoxically the most intriguing Malkmus album and the weakest of his post-Pavement career. ...more
Rolling StoneHis weirdest yet. ...more
JunkmediaIs Malkmus treading water? Well, maybe. But despite the complaints of those fans who can’t let Pavement go, he’s still making valid, adventurous and - most of all - fun music. ...more
Rolling StoneStephen Malkmus' third solo album is his weirdest yet, and that's saying something. On 2001'sStephen Malkmusand 2003'sPig Lib, he mutated the indie-rock sound of Pavement into fantastic new realms of fractured guitar kicks. But for number three, ...more
RollingStoneStephen Malkmus third solo album is his weirdest yet, and thats saying something. ...more
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