Editing This Beautiful Mess (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="allMusic">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-beautiful-mess-mw0000645037 |title=''This Beautiful Mess'' – Sixpence None the Richer |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=June 27, 2024 |first=Melinda |last=Hill}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Cross Rhythms (magazine)|Cross Rhythms]]''
| rev2score = 10/10<ref name="crossRhythms">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Sixpence_None_The_Richer/This_Beautiful_Mess/1419/ |title=Sixpence None The Richer – ''This Beautiful Mess'' |magazine=[[Cross Rhythms (magazine)|Cross Rhythms]] |issue=30 |date=December 1995 – January 1996 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Mike |last=Rimmer}}</ref>
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At the time of the album's release, Sixpence None the Richer were stereotyped as both an indie band and a Christian band, which led to ''This Beautiful Mess'' receiving relatively little in the way of attention from the secular or "mainstream" music industries<ref name="texasMonthly">{{cite web |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-gospel-according-to-sixpence-none-the-richer/ |title=The Gospel According to Sixpence None the Richer |publisher=[[Texas Monthly|TexasMonthly]] |date=November 1999 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Jason |last=Cohen}}</ref><ref name="cnn">{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9809/22/sixpence/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020628041832/http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9809/22/sixpence/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 28, 2002 |title=Modern rock's Sixpence finding success among stereotypes |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=September 22, 1998 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Jamie |last=Allen}}</ref> &mdash; the band's lead vocalist, Leigh Nash, stated during a 1999 interview, "we really knocked ourselves out for [''This Beautiful Mess''] and it didn’t really go anywhere."<ref name="pollstar">{{cite web |url=https://news.pollstar.com/1999/06/07/sixpence-none-the-richer/ |title=Sixpence None The Richer |date=June 7, 1999 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |publisher=[[Pollstar]]}}</ref> &mdash; although the attention it did receive was generally positive. The magazine ''[[Cross Rhythms (magazine)|Cross Rhythms]]'' highly praised it, saying "This, their second (proper) album, has been eagerly awaited and does not disappoint.",<ref name="crossRhythms"/> and [[AllMusic]] gave a moderately favorable review with particular praise going to the songs "Within a Room, Somewhere", calling it "one of the strongest songs of the album," and "Melting Alone," which "keenly expresses the pain of loneliness."<ref name="allMusic"/>

However, following the release of their [[Sixpence None the Richer (album)|eponymous album]] in 1997 and the explosion in popularity of the song "Kiss Me" in 1999, the band began to gather a much larger following outside of the Christian music industry.<ref name=texasMonthly/><ref name=cnn/><ref name=pollstar/><ref name=popEntertainment>{{cite web |url=http://www.popentertainment.com/sixpence.htm |title=Sixpence None the Richer: There She Goes |date=1999 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Jay S. |last=Jacobs}}</ref> Accordingly, in the years since, ''This Beautiful Mess'' has also received more, mostly positive, attention. Alan Parish penned an opinion piece for the online blog [[Medium (website)|Medium]], in which he detailed the profound impact the album had on his life, writing, "It was the best complete album I had ever heard, and to this day I consider it my favorite album of all time. [...] The internal emotions and thoughts this album spurred in me gave me a confidence and self-worth I had never before experienced."<ref name=medium>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/chrindie-95/sixpence-none-the-richers-this-beautiful-mess-5793834b1b9c |title=This Beautiful Mess |publisher=Medium |date=February 15, 2015 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Alan |last=Parish}}</ref> Jesus Freak Hideout noted that the album was a step up from their [[The Fatherless and the Widow|previous work]] and that the addition of three new members since then made Sixpence None the Richer "a full band," and ultimately summarized the album as "a must for fans of 90s alternative rock, and jangle pop, and those digging deeper into the history of Contemporary Christian Music."<ref name=jesusFreak>{{cite web |url=https://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/ThisBeautifulMess.asp |title=Sixpence None the Richer: ''This Beautiful Mess'' |date=August 17, 2023 |access-date=April 28, 2024 |first=Josh |last=Balogh}}</ref>