Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Alternative Press | |
| Allmusic | |
| Drowned in Sound | |
| musicOMH | |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.4/10) |
| Spin | |
| The Guardian | |
| PopMatters | |
| Time Out Sydney | |
Reception of Who Killed Amanda Palmer was generally positive. Joshua Klein of Pitchfork Media gave positive reviews of all tracks (with the exception of "Oasis"), and stated that "The Point of it All" "emphasizes strengths as a lyricist". MusicOMH reviewer Natasha Tripney described the album as "...exhilarating... It is a rather delicious confection; a cake iced with the darkest, bitterest chocolate", and ultimately gave the album 4 and half stars out of 5. However, Allmusic only gave the album 2 and half stars out of 5, stating that " a disc full of songs that originally didn't make the cut on the band's main albums. Most of these best alternate song ideas were already used up when compiling the track listing for the fantastic Dresden Dolls B-sides compilation, No, Virginia... released earlier the same year. So, what we're looking at here are C-sides, which despite any amount of studio polish and however great the contributions by Folds, don't quite stack up."
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