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Watch Me Fall

Jay Reatard

Watch Me Fall

Self-produced album from the Tennessee garage punk artist noted for his profilic singles output

ADM rating[?]

7.0

Label
Matador
UK Release date
04/08/2009
  1. 9.0 |   Spin

    Surprisingly well sequenced, Fall closes with its longest song, “There Is No Sun” (3:49), where the chorus bursts open like a 1967 Liverpool summer dawn. Reatard’s urges are old-school, which also can mean classic
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    Every now and then you come across an album that makes you say, without hesitation, this is going to be—or at least, ought to be—huge. Watch Me Fall is one of those albums.
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    A taut, sinewy masterclass
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Reatard may not be for everyone's taste, and some tracks do find him coasting along, but it's an album bursting with confidence and energy.
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  5. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    He has found his musical voice on Watch Me Fall, and while it may not be the best album of 2009, it’s certainly one of the most enjoyable.
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  6. 7.9 |   Pitchfork

    Neither a reinvention nor a holding pattern for Reatard-- walking the line between them is tricky, but he continues to make doing so look easy
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There’s a weakness to this stinging hoard of glam tragicomedies. For all its coherence musically and in the persona presented by Reatard, Watch Me Fall doesn’t have any sort of arc as an album
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  8. 7.0 |   The Quietus

    There isn't an actual bad track on the disc: some numbers pack lyrical refrains and hooks that pierce the brain, but even the ones that don't have an interesting musical flourish or two.
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  9. 7.0 |   Clash

    Leaves something of the garage-punk edginess behind, and replaces it with ironically happy music, and an altogether more mature feeling
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  10. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's a case to be made that when you've heard one you've heard 'em all. In practice it's like opening a packet of Haribo - before you know it you're a dozen down
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  11. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    It’s an acute exercise in power-pop, with Reatard’s Cheap Trick fancies making for a helter- skelter burst of enthusiastic songs with a knockabout charm to them.
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  14. 4.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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