Virginia Creeper | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 24, 2004 | |||
Recorded | August 1–14, 2003 | |||
Studio | Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 48:04 | |||
Label | Zoë | |||
Producer | Grant-Lee Phillips | |||
Grant-Lee Phillips chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 77/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
E! Online | B [3] |
The Guardian | [4] |
PopMatters | favorable [5] |
Virginia Creeper is the third album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, released on February 24, 2004.
Virginia Creeper was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 14 reviews. [2]
All tracks are written by Grant-Lee Phillips, unless noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Mona Lisa" | 4:11 | |
2. | "Walking Memory" | 4:07 | |
3. | "Lily-A-Passion" | 4:30 | |
4. | "Dirty Secret" | 3:37 | |
5. | "Always Friends" | 3:33 | |
6. | "Calamity Jane" | 3:44 | |
7. | "Josephine of the Swamps" | 5:22 | |
8. | "Far End of the Night" | 4:46 | |
9. | "Susanna Little" | 6:08 | |
10. | "Wish I Knew" | 3:58 | |
11. | "Hickory Wind" |
| 4:08 |
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Region | Date | Label | Format(s) | Catalog |
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UK | February 24, 2004 | Cooking Vinyl | CD, LP | COOKCD249 [6] |
US | February 24, 2004 | Zoë | CD, LP | 01143-1043-2 [7] |
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