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Get Guilty
by A.C. Newman
This is the second solo album for the New Pornographers' Carl Newman.
| LABEL: |
Matador |
| RELEASE DATE: |
20 January 2009 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Indie |
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...
91
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Get Guilty is a stirring set of memorable power-pop, given a personal spin via Newman's habit of delivering hard-to-parse pronouncements, like some kind of mad-eyed, curiously convincing soothsayer.
83
Entertainment Weekly
Newman ratchets down the excess while retaining his talent for killer, off-kilter melodies.
82
Paste Magazine
Newman’s second solo outing, Get Guilty, is a baroque-pop gem, on which he displays remarkable tonal control via crafty arrangement.
80
Slant Magazine
Yet all of this feels like quibbling when surveying an album that's still devastatingly charming, consistently intelligent, and engaging on first listen.
80
Dusted Magazine
Get Guilty isn’t an easy album at all. It just sounds like one.
80
PopMatters
As the album fades out to Newman and company singing, you feel drawn in to the song, much closer to the record than when you began. And that feeling is what makes Get Guilty fantastic.
80
All Music Guide
Anyone who can craft a record that sounds and feels as good as Get Guilty deserves to keep on making records forever.
75
Pitchfork
Like Wonder, Guilty has its share of up-tempo tracks, yet its real pleasures are idiosyncratic, revealing themselves the more attentively and often you listen.
70
Tiny Mix Tapes
This is just a modern rock record, and it definitely won’t change your life, but it’s more than competent and beyond clever.
70
Hartford Courant
The best songs here stand alongside the best songs in Newman's repertoire, but not everything on Get Guilty lives up to so high a standard. Make of that what you will.
70
Rolling Stone
Get Guilty isn't quite as consistent as a typical Pornographers record, but the arrangements are lusher. And like all Newman records, it shows off his smarts and maintains a strong hook quotient.
70
Spin
Get Guilty dwells on the past, and that pensive reflection mutes the second half, turning Newman's boast into a wistful memory.
60
Blender
ven the weaker material is nothing worse than pleasant, but it outweighs and obscures the better-than-pleasant; the middle of the album dissolves into an anonymously sweet haze.
50
The Phoenix
Too many of the songs rely on a stilted, march-like rhythm that makes them sound formal and restrained, especially when paired with Newman's arch lyrical delivery.
50
Alternative Press
It's surprisingly how generally lukewarm the music is on Newman's sophomore effort, Get Guilty. [Feb 2009, p.103]
42
cokemachineglow
Even with their glut of talent (Bejar not included), the band is sputtering for ideas.
40
NOW Magazine
This disc comes off like an early home demo for a mediocre New Pornographers recording before all the bright colours and drama get added.
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