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10.0
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10.0 |
Dork
The greatest DJ set you’ll ever hear from the greatest pop star of the modern age
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Arts Desk
It is her best album, a truly mighty achievement, and – yes – fully deserving of its title
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10.0
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10.0 |
Exclaim
Marking what is sure to be a new music trend of pop artists experimenting with dance and house music, Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE is a modern classic
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10.0
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10.0 |
Entertainment Weekly
Over 16 generation-hopping tracks, the record celebrates the transportive nature of the club, whirling through genres and name-checking floor-fillers that have ruled discotheques, warehouses, and makeshift dance havens for decades
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10.0
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10.0 |
Northern Transmissions
At nearly every turn, RENAISSANCE surprises, excites, comforts, and commands the listener to get up and move. It’s the most fun hour of music you’ll get all year
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10.0
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10.0 |
Albumism
Despite its power to unify, dance music can be dismissed as repetition and homogeny. Beyoncé’s artistic use of it as a medium, however, investigates hidden corners of the genre with complex arrangements and atypical melodies
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
Beyoncé is vocally up to the challenge of juggling the almost-innumerable quantity of styles and references, sighing, purring, beaming, belting, and spitting fire with all the required conviction and attitude
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
If ‘RENAISSANCE’ doesn’t convince you that a star with nothing to prove continues to produce sprawling bodies of work that are editorially precise, prismatic and rhythmically audacious, nothing will
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9.0
130878
9.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Renaissance is a next-level embrace of myriad dance sub-genres (including disco, house, techno, Afrobeat and bounce), one that’s delivered seamlessly and with genuine revelry
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9.0
130886
9.0 |
musicOMH
With a consistently hedonistic vibe from start to finish, here is your invite to a party as opulent as it is debauched
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
One of Beyoncé’s best albums to date: it doesn’t walk in the footsteps of its predecessors but instead makes its own path, going to places we didn’t think Beyoncé would go
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9.0
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9.0 |
Rolling Stone
Her seventh album’s quaint grandeur feels stunningly cutting-edge
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9.0
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9.0 |
Pitchfork
Beyoncé’s seventh album is not just a pop star’s immaculate dance record, but a rich celebration of club music and its sweaty, emancipatory spirit
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8.7
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Beats Per Minute
Renaissance is helped by the slick sequencing, which ensures this is an experiential album – one that won’t let you stop moving for a moment
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8.0
130857
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
On her seventh album, the singer displaces us from both history and the present and situates us in her unique ecosystem
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8.0
130871
8.0 |
Gigwise
An album of passionate party pleasers
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8.0
130852
8.0 |
The Independent
In a catch-all spirit of musical modernism, trap, house, glitchtronica, disco, ragga, South African gqom and future funk are all lobbed into a heady mix, with songs blending into each other and shifting course mid-flow
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8.0
130845
8.0 |
NME
The superstar’s first studio album in six years is indebted to house music and New Orleans bounce, keenly reclaiming gentrified genres
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8.0
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The Irish Times
A soundtrack for a feral summer of chaos and joy
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
On her unapologetically escapist seventh album, the pop superstar unleashes everything from disco bangers to global house hedonism
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8.0
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Evening Standard
Geared towards lighting up the club (and TikTok), this is Queen Bey’s most upbeat collection yet
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8.0
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8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The most vocally adventurous Beyoncé album, and her vocal command grounds the record
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8.0
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DIY
A masterclass in reinvention
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
While Renaissance occasionally sports more style than substance, Beyoncé emerges as the re-coronated Queen of Pop and the reigning regent of eclecticism
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
Sprinkled with star guests, the album anticipates a post-pandemic era of clubbing and hedonism
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