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Happy In Galoshes
by Scott Weiland
The second solo effort for the Stone Temple Pilots singer was produced with Doug Green and Steve Albini.
| LABEL: |
New West |
| RELEASE DATE: |
25 November 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Alternative |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
All Music Guide
Happy in Galoshes isn't quite as textured or bright as "12 Bar Blues"--the smaller budget is evident in its muted colors as well as Weiland's sleepy delivery--but it has the same emphasis on churning psychedelia and clomping glam.
70
Billboard
While the debut showed him eager to step outside the confines of STP, he essentially has nothing to prove here, and as a result, it's a casual-sounding record.
70
Rolling Stone
His latest is two discs and all over the highway, from the solid rock of "Missin' Cleveland" to the banjo-glam ballad 'Tango With Your Mind' to the bossa-nova glide of 'Killing Me Sweetly.'
60
Spin
With intervention from the boys of No Doubt and production help from Steve Albini, this sprawling album earns a fair hearing.
50
Blender
Mood enhancers like 'Blind Confusion' and 'Blister on My Soul' set tart melodies to a guitar punch that compensates for a shortage of coherent content. But from there, things slow down and bloat up.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Sticky melodies crop up here and there, but they're badly outnumbered by turgid power ballads and indulgent experiments.
40
Slant Magazine
Galoshes is a fascinating mess.
40
NOW Magazine
What he winds up with is an unfocused yet sonically balanced mess.
25
The Phoenix
It might be one of the year's worst albums, an underwritten, overarranged mess of factory-floor guitar fuzz, go-nowhere vocal melodies, limp electronic beats, and lyrical clunkers.
The average user rating for this album is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
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