I'll Be Your Girl
by The Decemberists
  • Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Mar 16, 2018
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 25
  3. Negative: 2 out of 25
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  1. Skydog
    May 19, 2018
    3
    First and foremost, props for including 80s syths into their music. There was a handful of songs I did enjoy on the album. I had never really listened to this band until I heard severed on our new indie station here. Then i listened to past records and the current one (the current one first of course)

    With that said I have to say this album was a huge letdown overall. It felt like they    First and foremost, props for including 80s syths into their music. There was a handful of songs I did enjoy on the album. I had never really listened to this band until I heard severed on our new indie station here. Then i listened to past records and the current one (the current one first of course)

    With that said I have to say this album was a huge letdown overall. It felt like they threw it together really quick without much thought. They had lots of filler on this to combat the bigger "hit" Severed. (although in today's day and age it's not really a "hit" unless it plays on the mixed genre stations or the pop stations)

    I was absolutely let down by this album.    … Expand

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Blurt Magazine
    May 9, 2018
    80
    There’s a sense of importance and profundity that emanates from practically every groove. Stirring, striking and flush with tunefulness and tenacity, I’ll Be Your Girl is more than a promising proposition.
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  2. Magnet
    Apr 17, 2018
    60
    What it's missing is haunting songs--calamity songs, the kind of songs that used to proliferate on Decemberists albums like soot-smudged Victorian orphans. [No. 150, p.49]
  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    Mar 28, 2018
    80
    The album magnifies both Meloy’s core songwriting and the group’s gifts for bold ambitious arrangements. This brings out some dynamic juxtapositions between simplicity and elaboration that serve proceedings in a refreshing fashion.
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