★★★★★
I'll admit it. I'm late to the Amanda Palmer party. By the time I discovered The Dresden Dolls, they were already finished. I do not follow her Twitter. I've never seen her live, and only caught a few of her performances on YouTube. I do know that she is married to one of my favorite authors and that she is respected by other people that I respect. But what really grabbed my attention, and the attention of the rest of the world apparently, was the Kickstarter project that funded Theatre is Evil...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It's impossible to talk about Amanda Palmer's first post-label album without getting sidetracked by how it was made: the excitement generated by her raising more than $1 million through Kickstarter, and then the backlash after she tried to get string and horn players to perform onstage for free. In theory, none of this should affect the music, but she's as guilty of making this the centrepiece of her story as anyone else...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
It's been a strange old journey for Amanda Palmer, since the release of her debut album Who Killed Amanda Palmer. It's a journey that's taken in marriage (to cult author Neil Gaiman), an acrimonious split with her former record company Roadrunner, all manner of side projects (the Evelyn Evelyn curio, the patchy 'Goes Down Under' record and the truly odd Radiohead ukulele covers EP) and one of the most successful crowd sourcing projects ever...
- www.musicomh.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? Or just 24,883 people funding a project on the internet? I had the every intention of being perhaps the first writer to cover Theatre Is Evil without resorting to discussing the money issue. Turns out, I'm not that good a critic, especially when there's enough material in the subject to more than meet this review's word count...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
Amanda Palmer is suffering from an identity crisis. Theatre is Evil, Palmer's first solo album since parting ways with her label, finds the self-proclaimed piano-slayer yearning not only to do it with a rock star, but to become one. The result is a song set that begins a move away from the haunted cabaret halls where Palmer shines-but never manages to go anywhere of note...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-09-17
★★★★★
Well. Shoot me for the faithless dog I am, because I wasn't convinced that she could top Who Killed Amanda Palmer? but she's gone and done it with headroom to spare. With Theatre Is Evil, Amanda Palmer unambiguously announces herself as a major artist beginning to flex abilities that could, if she wishes, propel her angry, sad, funny, compassionate muse right into the fatty heart of the mainstream...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-09-10
★★★★★
On Several Attempts to Cover Songs by the Velvet Underground & Lou Reed for Neil Gaiman as His Birthday Approaches, Amanda Palmer pokes fun at the notion of her being invited to sit on a panel of forward thinking musicians in the digital era. "That's, fucking, everybody," she says to laughter, but one would be hard-pressed to find an artist more deeply engaged in the act of constantly selling herself online more than Amanda Fucking Palmer...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
Once you 'discover' a new (to you) artist, you often find yourself quickly working your way back through their output - purchasing previous releases, scouring youtube for interesting videos, discovering little factoids about the artist, and generally connecting the dots. After hearing the lead single from Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under, "Map of Tasmania" (the dance song about pubic hair) I went on a such a quest. Oh, this is the woman from the Dresden Dolls? Are her eyebrows tattooed on...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-03-28
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