My Dark Places (album)

The critic Douglas Wolke described My Dark Places as "the band's saddest, most chaotic album. Much of it was improvised in the studio; at times, it recalls Mr. Barrett's edge-of-madness songs. Mr. Treacy's wobbly, desperate vocals suggest that he's on the verge of collapsing into sobs. In fact, he said, he did break down a few times during the recording, overwhelmed by making music for the first time in 11 years. "It's the way I like to work," he added. "I like to hurt when I'm working.""^[3]

In their review, Rolling Stone wrote that "this influential Brit duo put together a low-fi collage of electronic gurgles and folky patter, with [the vocalist] spluttering stream-of-consciousness poetry in his snaggletoothed cockney croon."^[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(72/100)[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Pitchfork	(6.7/10)[6]
Rolling Stone	[2]

All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy

1. "Special Chair" – 3:03
2. "All the Young Children on Crack" – 3:13
3. "Sick Again" – 2:15
4. "Ex-Girlfriend Club" – 4:18
5. "Dream the Sweetest Dreams" – 2:48
6. "Velvet Underground" – 3:21
7. "My Dark Places" – 3:00
8. "I'm Not Your Typical Boy" – 3:51
9. "You Kept Me Waiting Too Long" – 4:27
10. "They'll Have to Catch Us First" – 2:14
11. "She Can' Stop Traffic" – 3:43
12. "Tell Me About Your Day" – 3:00
13. "Then a Big Boy Came and Knocked It All Down" – 4:57
14. "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:31
15. "No More I Hate You's" – 2:47
16. "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye" – 3:47