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Coming Home

Usher

Coming Home

Ninth studio album and first in over seven years from the R&B artist featuring guest appearances from 21 Savage, Burna Boy, H.E.R., Jung Kook of BTS, Latto, Pheelz, The-Dream and Summer Walker

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
mega/gamma
UK Release date
09/02/2024
US Release date
09/02/2024
  1. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    Usher’s ninth album is another impressive display of his endless charm and vocal chops. Thirty years into his career, the R&B icon still knows how to keep it light and throw a great party
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  2. 7.0 |   All Music

    The album hits its stride with a sequence of slow jams demonstrating that Usher is at the top of his game as a singer, still much more than a mere entertainer
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  3. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    The star’s sprawling, twenty-song LP is nostalgic and familiar as Usher leans into the past without making it feel stale
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  4. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Lyrical foreplay isn’t exactly the singer’s strong suit on this throwback album full of percussive panting
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  5. 6.0 |   Clash

    ‘COMING HOME’ competently portrays love as part Afrodisiac, part pulse-racing chase, part languorous and lived-in sensation
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  6. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album feels less driven by creative ingenuity or an aesthetic vision than by sheer showmanship
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  7. 4.0 |   The FT

    Vintage effects in the singer’s first album in eight years underline the degree to which he has been left behind
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