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Virginia Creeper

by Grant-lee Phillips

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Overall Rating: 2.5920 Virginia Creeper is ranked overall as 2.5920 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.9693 Virginia Creeper has an avg. critic score of 2.9693 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

Phillips' fragile, tender songs are well suited to his uneasy protagonists

PopMatters

Although Virginia Creeper is a return in some ways to the days of "Dixie Drug Store" and "Lady Godiva and Me", the album is more about refinement than regression, comforting and fresh. ...more

All Music Guide

Like Springsteen, Phillips centers his songwriting in a kind of mythic America, an approach he used as well in his former band, Grant Lee Buffalo. But it is an approach that works only if the songs and the characters in them are believable, and Phillips' carefully considered, ornate lyrics often work against that believability. ...more

Stylus Magazine

A boringly functional record full of tediously average songwriting. ...more

PopMatters

Tangled Up in Creepers At a recent show in Chicago, Grant-Lee Phillips and band performed his latest album almost in its entirety, playing 10 of 11 songs. This is not unusual for the promotion of a new album. What was unusual was they also played about half of Grant Lee Buffalo's 1994 masterpiece Mighty Joe Moon and 1993's debut Fuzzy . ...more

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Mojo

A fabulous, strangely soothing...read the complete review at Mojo

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Delusions of Adequacy

Arguably the best thing Phillips has done since Grant Lee Buffalo’s fantastic 1993 debut, Fuzzy....read the complete review at Delusions of Adequacy

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The A.V. Club

Used-CD stores are littered with the remains of '90s alt-rock also-rans, bands snatched up in the music industry's post-Nevermind feeding frenzy, given a moment in the spotlight, and then allowed to disappear. Most deserve the anonymity, but anyone...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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