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10.0
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The Guardian
This blockbuster debut album matches its eclecticism and broad emotional range with high-quality hooks throughout – and all with the rapper’s sexuality front and centre
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10.0
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The Independent
This album isn’t the creation of a gimmick-spinner. It’s an album bursting with technicolour heart
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10.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
A portal into future pop history, Lil Nas X’s iconic MONTERO is written for our younger selves
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10.0
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Gigwise
Impossible to dislike
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9.0
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Clash
A colossal event release, ‘MONTERO’ excels the marketing spin by delivering one of 2021’s most daring, riveting, and honest pop statement. After months of anticipation, Lil Nas X speaks his truth – and the world is ready to listen
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9.0
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Vinyl Chapters
Montero is bold in more ways than one and is about as great of a debut as one could have hoped for from Hill
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8.0
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DIY
A triumphant debut that sees the once-considered one-hit-wonder proving he’s got what it takes
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8.0
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musicOMH
The music throughout MONTERO suggests that Nas X has a very bright future ahead of him
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8.0
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Exclaim
He proves that he is a fully-fledged, multifaceted person who can do it all, and has all the makings of a modern yet ever-evolving pop star. He just remembers to have a fun, honest time while doing it
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8.0
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Evening Standard
From slinky pop rap on Scoop to tortured rock on Life After Salem, he’s doing it all, and against the odds, proving that he has a long bright career ahead
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7.5
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A.V. Club
Everything’s he’s done has led to this engaging debut record, a work that allows his inner self to shine
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7.1
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Pitchfork
On his melodious debut album, the pop-rap icon flaunts his verve and star power, all while a sense of isolation lives at the music’s brighter edges
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
The boundaries between earnestness and camp are blurred on Lil Nas X’s Montero, but it retains the rapper’s sensitive, playful personality
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
The young legend’s long-awaited full-length debut is a subversive delight
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6.0
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The FT
The pop-rapper’s debut is clearly geared for commercial success but transmits a sense of the personal too
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6.0
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The Observer
The Old Town Road rapper grabs freely from pop, trap and rock on his full-length debut
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6.0
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NME
It’s refreshing to see the rapper in a reflective light, but when he's upstaged by the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, the gulf between them become apparent
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6.0
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The Arts Desk
Various flavours are somehow melded into one by the production which renders everything high gloss, hyperreal and plasticky
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