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9.3
31956
9.3 |
Pitchfork
The record comes alive with color and personality largely thanks to Girls' singer and songwriter Christopher Owens
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9.1
32026
9.1 |
A.V. Club
What was once just sensitive has become downright spiritual
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9.1
32082
9.1 |
Pretty Much Amazing
An album that is built around injecting universal melodies with their unique cocktail of insouciant lyrics, playful time schemes
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9.0
31540
9.0 |
Spin
The magic of Girls' songs is how they distill youthful romance's fatalistic fucked-upness to a sublime heart-to-heart using open-source couplets, riffs, choruses, etc
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9.0
31845
9.0 |
PopMatters
Unlike past Girls’ outings, Father, Son, Holy Ghost is bracingly immediate, a collection of songs that don’t have to grow on you—songs that are fully realized and lovable at first blush
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9.0
32159
9.0 |
Paste Magazine
This album not only surpasses its predecessor but raises the bar for any band, indie or otherwise, mining the past for inspiration
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9.0
32203
9.0 |
FasterLouder
One of those rare records that allows you to immerse yourself within it and develop a powerful personal connection to it
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9.0
32277
9.0 |
DIY
Of all the albums that will be pushed up those ceaseless end of year lists, you can be sure that Girls will be the proud parents of the one with a soul
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9.0
32419
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A great, great album with few caveats
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9.0
33015
9.0 |
The AU Review
An album that requires a bit of patience, but it is worth it
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9.0
35668
9.0 |
No Ripcord
The quality of the tracks on the album is undeniable, but there is still some question about the cohesiveness of the album as a whole. While you certainly get off that emotional rollercoaster exactly where you wanted to, you might wonder how exactly you got there
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8.0
33188
8.0 |
State
The songwriting unravels with time to become unexpectedly deep
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8.0
32007
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Succeeds thoroughly at nearly everything it does, expanding Owens and JR White’s palette beyond the scope of the duo’s debut without going too far out on a limb
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8.0
32303
8.0 |
Blurt
Contains some of the deftest songwriting of 2011, and is more than a worthy successor to the group's debut
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8.0
31853
8.0 |
Bowlegs
It’s another side to the band, and one that you will want to hear time and time again
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8.0
31884
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Despite its overly stretched running time, this is an album with countless depths to plumb and myriad layers to unravel
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8.0
32083
8.0 |
AU Review
Sounds like the perfect all-American album for 2011
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8.0
32100
8.0 |
NME
Something of a maladroit masterpiece
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8.0
31517
8.0 |
Mojo
An album that travels from slacker pop to a kind of desolate, beautiful blues in a series of quite astonishing songs. Print edition only
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7.0
31698
7.0 |
BBC
It’s lengthy, but the sensitivity of every guitar tickle and percussive touch, as well as main man Christopher Owens’ spellbinding voice, means that it is rarely boring
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7.0
31987
7.0 |
Beats Per Minute
It is continually ambitious from song to song, never leaving an idea to go unexplored. But, Father, Son, Holy Ghost seems like a step backward from their previous work
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7.0
32135
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A complex record, one that doesn't quite fully realising Girls potential as great recording artists, yet equally suggests that bonafide masterpiece may not be too far around the corner
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7.0
31565
7.0 |
Clash
A quiet, understated triumph
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7.0
32877
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Girls find the right sonic twist to give clichéd romantic self-pity a fresh, forlorn sting
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6.0
32793
6.0 |
The Quietus
While the band are clearly having a wail of a time, they come dangerously close to drowning out what was so arresting about their music in the first place
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6.0
31508
6.0 |
Uncut
They've wrangled some gloss on top of their songwriting, for better and worse. Print edition only
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6.0
31514
6.0 |
Q
Girls' scatterbrained classic rock patchwork is so idiosyncratically odd. Print edition only
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6.0
31900
6.0 |
The Guardian
Gospel choirs? Stadium rock riffs? Six minute folk songs in no hurry to find the nearest chorus? All feature here
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5.5
32860
5.5 |
Prefix
For most of the album they resort to familiar symptoms of the sophomore-slump - rehashing old ideas, misplaced pride and instrumental indulgence
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5.0
31666
5.0 |
Rave Magazine
Unless you’re bringing something new to the table, the pastiche is bound to fall flat eventually
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3.0
32230
3.0 |
Under The Radar
On the whole, the album feels like a parody of music's tropes, limping along with no real sou
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