Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 82 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| The Guardian | |
| MusicOMH | (positive) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.8/10) |
| Q | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| Stylus Magazine | A– |
Our Shadows Will Remain was released to positive acclaim in both the United States and Europe. Allmusic awarded the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, praising that, "Arthur is in a class of his own and Our Shadows Will Remain is a monstrous, memorable outing, his finest moment in a career that is thus far full of them." Entertainment Weekly gave the album an A rating, hailing the album as "especially forceful and cohesive"; The Guardian hailed that Joseph "might just be a genuine mad genius"; Stylus Magazine gave the album an A– rating; and Chris Rubin of Rolling Stone named Our Shadows Will Remain as the number 1 album of the year 2004 in the year-end critics' pick list, and stated that, "The singer-songwriter from Akron weaves his dark tales through tempestuous music, and Shadows is as good as music gets."
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