Critic’s takes (from Reuters):
“Johansson’s voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she’s a faintly goth Marilyn Manson lost in a sonic fog,” wrote Rolling Stone magazine, which gave her a lukewarm 2.5 stars out of five.
Britain’s Mojo magazine called the recordings “fussy and forgettable,” adding that the decision to begin the album with an instrumental was hardly a vote of confidence in Johansson’s vocal abilities.
The disc received a middling “C” grade from Entertainment Weekly magazine, which wrote that her “expressionless voice” was buried “deeply in the druggy ambiance.”
And the Washington Post said it was possible to listen to all 40-plus minutes of Johansson’s album and “still have no earthly idea what she sounds like.”
“The album is ultimately too ethereal for its own good,” the Post said. “Every song is like every other song, even the ones that sound different.”