• Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Feb 19, 2002
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Donelly focuses on tunes that enter your head with a determination to stay for the long term.
  2. An album which feels like a hand-me-down from a ghost.
  3. What sets Beautysleep apart from any of her previous records is that her voice is front and center, and stronger than ever.
  4. 80
    May well be Donelly's definitive post-Belly work.
  5. Beautysleep's weakness is that so many songs are pretty instead of awe-inspiring-- that she gives us only a little greatness.
  6. Uncut
    80
    A wicked, weathered stream of sinewy, shadowy songs. [Mar 2002, p.102]
  7. At times strong, at other times vulnerable, and invariably honest, Donelly both affirms and fulfills the promise of her songwriting talent with Beauty Sleep.
User Score
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. PennyTVGohome
    Feb 20, 2002
    10
    I love it!