| Rabbit Fur Coat | ||||
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| Studio album by Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins | ||||
| Released | January 24, 2006 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, alternative country | |||
| Length | 37:38 | |||
| Label | Team Love | |||
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Rabbit Fur Coat is an album by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, featuring The Watson Twins. It was released in the United States on January 24, 2006 by Team Love. Lewis has described the album as a "sort of soul record". The album contains a cover of the Traveling Wilburys song "Handle With Care", featuring Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) and M. Ward.
Lewis embarked on her first solo tour to support the album, with Johnathan Rice and either Whispertown 2000 or The Blow opening. She also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with Craig Ferguson in support of the album.
This album is the 8th release of Team Love Records.
Listeners of All Songs Considered, NPR's online music show, voted the album the eighth best of 2006.
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (78/100) [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [2] |
| Being There Magazine | [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A-) [4] |
| Pitchfork | (6.1/10) [5] |
| Rolling Stone | [6] |
| Teentoday.co.uk | [7] |
| The Village Voice / Robert Christgau | A− [8] |
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The album received mostly favorable reviews and maintains a normalized rating of 78 out of 100 on MetaCritic based on 24 professional reviews.[1]
Actress Anne Hathaway was quoted in People as calling Rabbit Fur Coat "beautiful, funny, and very subversive".[9]
(all tracks written by Lewis except where noted)
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 2006 | The Billboard 200 | 88 |
| 2006 | Top Independent Albums | 6 |
James Valentine, Jenny Lewis, Chandra Watson, Leigh Watson, Johnathan Rice, Jason Boesel, Mike Mogis, Mickey Madden, Greg Kurstin, Mike Bloom, Matt Ward, Larry Crane, Michael Runion, Benjamin Gibbard, Conor Oberst, David Scher and Rachel Bloomberg.
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