''Candy Ass'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of

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. It was released on October 3, 2005, by

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Critical reception

''Candy Ass'' was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an

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score of 51 based on 11 reviews. In a review for

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, Mark Deming said: "''Candy Ass'' largely finds Eitzel exploring his interest in electronic music, with most of it apparently recorded by the artist all by his lonesome. While ''

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'' found Eitzel finding a warmth and humanity deep in his masses of loops and samples, ''Candy Ass'' sounds considerably colder and less inviting, and the several instrumental cuts on the album are a severe miscalculation." Ryan Dombal of ''

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'' gave the album a four out of ten rating, calling the release a "bore of a detour". At ''

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'', Zeth Lundy wrote: "Eitzel's amateur electronic dabbling, dated and nondescript, suffocates the already stagnant snippets of recycled melodies and exhausted tempos. ''Candy Ass'' has an overabundance of maniacal house, club thumping, and digital depections of real instrumentation, but none of it ever serves the songs appropriately."

Track listing

References

External links

* * {{Authority control 2005 albums Mark Eitzel albums Cooking Vinyl albums