Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. AllMusic
    Aug 11, 2023
    90
    Like the best of Bonnie "Prince" Billy's work that came before it, Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is the kind of record that gets played over and over until it feels like a part of the listener's personal history.
  2. Glide Magazine
    Aug 10, 2023
    80
    Will Oldham has set a new standard for himself on Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, a standard that could only possibly be outdone by the artist who set it.
  3. Mojo
    Aug 9, 2023
    80
    Has a spare, homespun feel with its simple folk guitar. [Sep 2023, p.82]
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  5. Uncut
    Aug 9, 2023
    80
    An open, compassionate record with a fierce spirit. [Sep 2023, p.33]
  6. Dusted Magazine
    Aug 9, 2023
    80
    Keeping Secrets feels like, itself, a bit of a hidden gem, murmured at you rather than shouted, a quiet one but a grower.
  7. Pitchfork
    Aug 14, 2023
    77
    Oldham long sounded like he had wisdom to share, and he sometimes did. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You overflows with it.
  8. Exclaim
    Aug 9, 2023
    70
    Like any secret, it is sometimes sharp and poignant, sometimes mundane. And yet, in its best moments, it becomes a secret worth hearing.

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