Ed HarcourtBest Ed Harcourt Albums Ranked

Beyond the End

pastemagazine

6.3

“Ever since launching his career with his storied debut Here Be Monsters in 2001, Ed Harcourt has scored a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Prize and become a much in demand contributor to other people’s albums (the most recent being Marianne Faithfull’s widely heralded Negative Capability), Harcourt happily assumed the role of a pensive provocateur capable of both a cinematic sweep and low c”

From Every Sphere

pitchfork

5.8

“It's beyond easy to compose long, annotated lists of musicians that Ed Harcourt sounds like: a shined-up Tom Waits, a watered down Badly Drawn Boy, a less subtle Elliott Smith, a strained Rufus Wainwright, an overwhelmed M. Ward...but we don't settle for RIYL contextualizing here at Pitchfork. The confessional male singer/songwriter path is a well-tread trail, first battered down decades ago by s”

Lustre

pitchfork

4.3

“Following his 2007 best-of, the British singer-songwriter returns with an album that finds him trying his hand at some new styles.”

Here Be Monsters

pitchfork

4.0

“To all those searching for their next fix of minimal, watered-down singer/songwriter sensitivity, look no further. Ed Harcourt has arrived, and he's got exactly what you need. A recent expulsion from Headmaster DiCrescenzo's School for Emotionally Fragile Male Singer/Songwriters, Ed was retained by the program long enough to learn some by-the-book songwriting techniques, but his insistence on swee”

The Beautiful Lie

pitchfork

1.9

“No, the host of "Morning Becomes Eclectic" hasn't started writing his own songs; it's the latest album from that dude who used to get compared to Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright but now gets bracketed with Tom McRae and Damien Rice.”