The Smell Of Our Own
by The Hidden Cameras
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7

Review this album

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. paulha
    Apr 30, 2003
    9
    Exquisitely, explicitly enjoyable.
  2. KirstyD
    May 27, 2003
    9
    Absolutely, totally lush.
  3. KristianJ
    Nov 7, 2004
    9
    These songs have been lliving inside my head for quite a while now. It makes me wanna do the front singer so much. even when he's singing about how he loves pee!
  4. EricaK
    Oct 6, 2004
    9
    For me, this was one of those rare albums that seemed to open up a new window. It's great when something like that happens to blow the dust off the limits of what you though were your tastes. The lyrics are at once clever, sensitive, and shocking and the music divine.

Awards & Rankings

46
#46 Best Album of 2003

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Q Magazine
    80
    Imagine if a Morrissey-style frontman--sharp, tender and taboo-breaking--was also sexual. [May 2003, p.107]
  2. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    More religious text and tapestry than commercial pop folk, The Smell of Our Own charts its own territory through the heart and head and holes of celebratory love. Truly unique.
    Read full review
  3. AllMusic
    80
    The album almost sounds like an original cast recording of a musical -- the next best thing to being there, but not the same by a long shot.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »