Adventures in Your Own Backyard
by Patrick Watson
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: May 1, 2012
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
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  1. Mojo
    Jul 18, 2012
    60
    The songs are rarely more than threads of querulous melody and floaty notions. [Jun 2012, p.93]
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  2. Magnet
    May 30, 2012
    60
    Decidedly pleasant. [No.87 p.60]
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  3. PopMatters
    May 30, 2012
    60
    There's a permeating feeling that if you've heard one Patrick Watson album, you have heard them all, even if Adventures in Your Own Backyard offers some subtleties and a slight change in approach and forebodingness. Still, it is enjoyable on its own terms.
  5. The Fly (UK)
    Apr 30, 2012
    60
    Combining moments of instrumental grandeur with sections so stripped-back they verge on silence, Watson delivers the perfect summer evening soundtrack.
  6. The Guardian
    Apr 30, 2012
    60
    It's pretty stuff, with breathtaking production which doesn't quite conceal a shortage of strong songs. The spine-tingling anthem Quiet Crowd is the exception, Watson's butterfly vocal darting around lines about "lovers and liars" and wrongs in dangerous places.
  7. Prefix Magazine
    May 16, 2012
    50
    Adventures in Your Own Backyard is about as confirmatory of an artist's status quo as an album can be; it takes Watson's style in no new directions, preferring instead to bask in its own childlike exuberance and to demonstrate all the trappings of ambition but little in the way of earning it.

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. RiverPlate
    Oct 24, 2014
    7
    If you've been listening to PW since his first album then you will surely like the album, there is nothing bad with it, the guy continues toIf you've been listening to PW since his first album then you will surely like the album, there is nothing bad with it, the guy continues to grow and so his music. luckily he is not experiment too much with technology and keeps it real using lost of arrangements and instruments.… Full Review »
  2. KateTGD
    Jun 26, 2012
    9
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