Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Piero Scaruffi | 7/10 |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | favorable |
| Treble | favorable |
Like Big Star's first two albums, Third/Sister Lovers did not have commercial success at the time of its release but has more recently attracted wider interest. In Allmusic's retrospective review of the album, the website gave it five stars out of five, calling it a "shambling wreck of an album" while at the same time "among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark" and "the slow, sinking sound of a band falling apart".
treblezine.com called it "one of the most intense, emotional and visceral records one is likely to ever hear", labelling it "the infamous rock legend "burnout," captured on tape".
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