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| Okemah and the Melody of Riot | ||||
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| Studio album by Son Volt | ||||
| Released | October 5, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | October 12–26, 2004 | |||
| Studio | St. Louis | |||
| Genre | Alternative country | |||
| Length | 46:20 | |||
| Label | Transmit Sounds | |||
| Producer | Jay Farrar | |||
| Son Volt chronology | ||||
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Okemah and the Melody of Riot is the fourth album by alt-country band Son Volt. It was released on October 5, 2005.
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 72/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B [3] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [4] |
| NME | 7/10 [1] |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10 [5] |
| PopMatters |   [6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| Slant Magazine | [8] |
| Stylus Magazine | B− [9] |
| Uncut | [1] |
The album has a score of 72 out of 100 from Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1] Trouser Press gave the album a very favorable review and called it "A stunning return to form." [10] The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and said of Jay Farrar, "Even when his overintellectualized lyrics smear into a palette of industrial gray, the guitars provide a strong human heartbeat." [11] NME gave it a score of seven out of ten and said that "Farrar has the passion to carry the songs beyond any hackneyed themes." [1] Other reviews are average or mixed: Mojo gave the album three stars out of five and said, "By focusing on the temporal, [Farrar] reduces himself to simple protest music rather than timeless folk." [1] The New York Times gave it an average review and said, "The band's underlying, stubborn seriousness, and nearly Amish unwillingness to change, creates its appeal." [12] Blender , however, gave it two stars out of five and said that Farrar had "never tried so actively to fuse prescriptive politics into [the] mix, and the move feels suspect." [1]
All songs written by Jay Farrar.
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