Show Me Your Tears
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| Released | September 8, 2003 | |||
| Studio | Frank Black and the Catholics' mobile studio, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Alternative country | |||
| Length | 41:31 | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100[1] |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Alternative Press | 6/10[3] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| Mojo | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 5.4/10[6] |
| Q | [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
| Stylus Magazine | B[9] |
| Uncut | [10] |
| Under the Radar | [11] |
Show Me Your Tears is the sixth and final studio album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. Released in September 2003 by SpinART in the US and Cooking Vinyl in the UK,[12] the album employs a wide range of guests, including piano and an arrangement by Van Dyke Parks on the final track, "Manitoba". Within months of the album's release, it was announced that Black would be participating in a Pixies reunion, and since that time, the Catholics have effectively been defunct.
Black said, "We’d been playing together a long time, ten years of hard touring and loading our own gear and not making a lotta money out of it, and we’re hittin’ the mid-life crisis. And they're all getting mad at me ‘cause I’m forcing them to record live to two-track for the umpteenth time."[13]
