Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Guardian | |
| PopMatters | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Yahoo! Music UK | |
| Q Magazine | |
Reviews for Eye to the Telescope were positive. Mark A. Price of PopMatters gave the album a score of 7 out of 10, noting that it manages to sound "both new and familiar", mixing influences from artists like Melissa Etheridge and Fiona Apple while adding some originality of her own. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave it three and a half stars out of five, calling it "a promising, satisfying debut". On Metacritic, Eye to the Telescope has a score of 76 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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