| Black Letter Days | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 20, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | October 2001 – January 2002 | |||
| Studio | Frank Black and the Catholics' mobile recording studio, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 65:16 | |||
| Label | SpinART (US) Cooking Vinyl (Europe) | |||
| Producer | Nick Vincent | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 60/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Alternative Press | 7/10[3] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The Guardian | [5] |
| Pitchfork | 6.9/10[6] |
| Q | [7] |
| Rolling Stone | [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
| Uncut | [10] |
| The Village Voice |  [11] |
Black Letter Days is the first of two albums by Frank Black and the Catholics simultaneously released in 2002 (along with Devil's Workshop). The title implies the opposite of the term "Red Letter Days" which are holidays – a "black letter day" being all the ordinary days in a given month.[12]
- ^ "Black Letter Days by Frank Black & The Catholics". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ Phares, Heather. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Black Letter Days". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Black Letter Days". Alternative Press: 77. October 2002.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
- ^ Aizlewood, John (23 August 2002). "Frank Black and the Catholics: Black Letter Days". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ Bowers, William (3 September 2002). "Frank Black & the Catholics: 'Black Letter Days' and 'Devil's Workshop'". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
- ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Black Letter Days". Q: 100. September 2002.
- ^ "Frank Black: Black Letter Days". Archived from the original on 17 August 2003. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Frank Black and the Catholics". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 74. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Black Letter Days". Uncut: 103. September 2002.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (2003-02-11). "The Prelude". The Village Voice.
- ^ "Features:Frank Black". Splendid. Archived from the original on 2006-12-15. Retrieved 2007-03-25.