Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Blender | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A) |
| The Guardian | |
| The New York Times | (positive) |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.8/10) |
| PopMatters | (9/10) |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Stylus | C+ |
This album was No. 35 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
On July 10, 2007, the shortlist for the Polaris Music Prize was revealed. The Reminder was announced as a finalist, alongside such other acts as The Besnard Lakes, Chad VanGaalen, and eventual winner Patrick Watson.
Kaleefa Saneh of The New York Times ranked The Reminder at #1, and John Pareles ranked it at No. 2 on list of the 10 Best Albums of 2007.
Less than a year after its release, Blender listed it 80th on their list of The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever. Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed The Reminder at number 112 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.
Feist won the 2007 Shortlist Music Prize for "The Reminder"; she is the second woman (after Cat Power) to ever win the award.
It won Juno Awards in 2008 for Pop Album of the Year and for Album of the Year. After winning her 5 Junos, in Canada her album sales shot back up the chart from No. 12 to No. 2, the position her album debuted at. It was also nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the 50th Grammy Awards.
| Publisher | Accolade | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com | Best of 2007: Top 100 Editors' Picks | #1 |
| Best of 2007: Top 100 Customer Favorites | #11 | |
| National Public Radio | Listeners’ Picks | #3 |
| No Ripcord | Top 50 Albums of 2007 | #11 |
| Pitchfork Media | Top 50 Albums of 2007 | #19 |
| PopMatters | The Best Albums of 2007 | #26 |
| Rolling Stone | The Best Albums of 2007 | #35 |
| Spin | The 40 Best Albums of 2007 | #18 |
| TIME | Top 10 Albums | #3 |
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