Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.8/10) |
| PopMatters | (favorable) |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | |
Songs for Dustmites received positive reviews from music critics; most of them were surprised that an album made by the former Blue's Clues would be any good. Heather Phares of Allmusic called the album "a promising debut", writing it was "a good-natured collection of atmospheric pop that takes a few chances now and then." She gave the album three and a half stars out of five. Pitchfork Media gave it a 7.8/10 and complimented Burns' "lyrical insight and gift for writing and arranging endlessly listenable pop songs". The album as a whole was described as managing "to remain true to Burns' legacy as a nice-guy kid's show host despite having made an unabashedly adult record that deals with familiar themes of love and loss." Brian Houston of PopMatters wrote that "Songs for Dustmites is a successful album, but the caveat will always be that the reason for the success lies with the Lips contributions and not with Burns’s talent or vision." A reviewer at Tiny Mix Tapes stated he had "hoped to rate it amongst the worst of the year in revenge for the long and dreadful years of Blue’s Clues that he had bestowed upon me. But he has beaten the odds and has accomplished what he had hoped for in this record."
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