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Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Uncut
    Dec 15, 2021
    70
    These shimmery reworkings of Cave classics including "The Ship Song" and "Red Right Hand" are pleasingly free of both solemn reverence and ironic kitsch. [Feb 2022, p.33]
  2. Dec 15, 2021
    70
    Where the Viaduct Looms is a daring and mostly rewarding undertaking, especially for Smith. Performing the songs of one of alternative music's most acclaimed acts with another backing her, she uncovers meanings and feelings that weren't fully present in the original material -- and that bodes well for what she might be capable of with her own songs.
  3. Dec 15, 2021
    70
    It’s a concept that really shouldn’t work, but somehow does. Cave’s songs, usually so full of menace, mystique and melancholy, are given new light under Smith’s light, airy voice, and the fact that she was unfamiliar with the source material means that no tracks are treated with any over-reverence.
  4. Mojo
    Dec 15, 2021
    60
    The more gothic the song (Girl In Amber; Red Right Hand) the better the interpretation. [Feb 2022, p.92]
  5. Classic Rock Magazine
    Jan 6, 2022
    50
    There awaits a winning collaboration between band and singer, but this isn't it. [Feb 2022, p.79]

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