Devil's Workshop

Devil's Workshop
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 20, 2002
RecordedMarch–April 2002
StudioFrank Black and the Catholics' mobile recording studio, Los Angeles
GenreAlternative rock
Length33:10
LabelSpinART (US)
Cooking Vinyl (Europe)
Producer
Frank Black and the Catholics chronology
Black Letter Days
(2002)
Devil's Workshop
(2002)
Show Me Your Tears
(2003)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic60/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Alternative Press6/10[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Guardian[5]
Pitchfork6.9/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
Stylus MagazineC−[10]
Uncut[11]

Devil's Workshop is the second of a pair of albums by Frank Black and the Catholics to be simultaneously released on August 20, 2002 (along with Black Letter Days). "His Kingly Cave" was originally recorded for an aborted album project in mid-2000 entitled Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day. "Velvety"'s music comes from an earlier Pixies B-side, appropriately named "Velvety Instrumental Version". The track first received lyrics when it was revived for this album.

  1. ^ "Devil's Workshop by Frank Black & The Catholics". Metacritic. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  2. ^ Phares, Heather. "Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop". Allmusic. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  3. ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop". Alternative Press: 77. October 2002.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  5. ^ Aizlewood, John (August 23, 2002). "Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop". The Guardian. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  6. ^ Bowers, William (September 3, 2002). "Frank Black & the Catholics: 'Black Letter Days' and 'Devil's Workshop'". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  7. ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop Review". Q: 100. September 2002.
  8. ^ "Frank Black: Devil's Workshop". Archived from the original on August 17, 2003. Retrieved September 9, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics". Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ "Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop Review". Uncut: 103. September 2002.