Secret House Against The World
by Buck 65
  • Record Label: Warner
  • Release Date: Aug 1, 2005
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11

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  1. aurelies
    Sep 21, 2005
    1
    Lyrically poor and silly, smells false confession. Seeks the sympathy from listener, complains too much. Musically appaling, especially on the rock songs.
  2. Steve
    Nov 4, 2005
    3
    This album is lacking. What happened? The man could fashion words together in ways that boggle the mind. This album is country trip-hop. There are sounds create the eqivalent of bad punk, and rips of Cash. I still dig some of the beats, the minor, and live recordings... even when they are loops. The album also includes a female vocalist that was well, she could go back to what she was This album is lacking. What happened? The man could fashion words together in ways that boggle the mind. This album is country trip-hop. There are sounds create the eqivalent of bad punk, and rips of Cash. I still dig some of the beats, the minor, and live recordings... even when they are loops. The album also includes a female vocalist that was well, she could go back to what she was doing and decay. "Hip-Hop ruined my life"? nawww, you ain't hip-hop no more. Maybe if i OD on drugs i could understand it better, until i enter that state save your money. out… Expand

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Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Uncut
    40
    Buck's monotone and his lack of truly cutting statements make this a dour experience. [Sep 2005, p.100]
  2. The Wire
    90
    Buck's refusal to recognise musical boundaries and his instinctive ability to pick out elements that work together--sometimes surprisingly so--have given us a genre-bending album of high artistic vision, spit and grit. [#258, p.52]
  3. cokemachineglow
    70
    Pick out the antihero tracks and one or two missteps and you have every Beck album (no typo) crammed into one disc with more wit and charm and weird science and heartache than that dude’s cumulative catalogue.
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