Fatherfucker
by Peaches
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 3 out of 17

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  1. DomS.
    Oct 3, 2003
    1
    The title of this album is a perfect description of its eschewment of everything decent: Listening to it is like having sex with your father.
  2. othostice
    Aug 3, 2006
    1
    Nothing here that others have not done better and more subtly, from Chrissie Hynde to Li'l Kim. If she weren't white, would she even have a recording contract?
  3. brian
    Oct 28, 2003
    0
    peaches is so desperate to shock us. ooh, she's got HAIRY ARMPITS! shes totally challenging me and the rest of the western male misogynistic conspiracy! i mean, this album is a real threat to the power structure we've got going here! did you hear me, people? ARMPIT HAIR! Let's riot! . . no seriously, i had the extreme displeasure to see peaches live. this is not 'rock peaches is so desperate to shock us. ooh, she's got HAIRY ARMPITS! shes totally challenging me and the rest of the western male misogynistic conspiracy! i mean, this album is a real threat to the power structure we've got going here! did you hear me, people? ARMPIT HAIR! Let's riot! . . no seriously, i had the extreme displeasure to see peaches live. this is not 'rock and roll', people. this is not music. this is aimed squarely at 15 year olds desperately trying to challenge the status quo. this is juvenile and shitty. if you like this, you dont really like music, plain and simple. … Expand

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. The A.V. Club
    40
    Nearly all of Fatherfucker falls back into ostensibly bracing anthems that sound plain stupid in such abundance.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Now grafting meaty guitars and ferocious singing onto her minimal electronic beats, she summons the very spirit of rock & roll. [26 Sep 2003, p.95]
  3. Urb
    80
    Takes her dirty white girlisms to an even more profound yet still salacious place. [Nov 2003, p.89]
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