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Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Record Collector
    Feb 24, 2025
    80
    Armageddon In A Summer Dress is brimming with musical and lyrical invention. Sensational. [Mar 2025, p.105]
  2. Mojo
    Feb 20, 2025
    80
    If her 2023 breakthrough Anarchist Gospel was sparse and brooding, haunted by break-ups and deaths in the family, Armageddon In A Summer Dress bristles with Tom petty guitars, skinny-tie keyboards and a hard-won sense that - despite the miserable treatments of the have-nots - humanity might still be worth saving. [Mar 2025, p.87]
  3. 80
    The product of constant playing and musical experimentation between tour duties, Armageddon In A Summer Dress marks the point where the nominally folkie Ward goes electric. The effect is frequently electrifying.
  4. Feb 20, 2025
    70
    It is a hard-to-classify effort that shifts genres and influences often as War moves through different motifs.
  5. Uncut
    Feb 20, 2025
    70
    An album replete with a rich, warm vibe that is more country-soul than punk rock, with swirling organ prominent in the mix. [Feb 2025, p.43]
  6. Feb 20, 2025
    70
    With this release, Sunny War solidifies herself as a fearless voice in contemporary music.
  7. Feb 20, 2025
    70
    There are some more hopeful cuts on the album, such as “Rise”, that notes “bad days come and go”—and so do good ones. However, most of the songs, with names such as ‘Cry Baby”, “No One Calls Me Baby”, “Scornful Heart”, and are sad.

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