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8.5
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8.5 |
Paste Magazine
The pop star’s Short n’ Sweet follow-up is as brainy as it is raunchy, with clever wordplay superseded only by inspired form
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8.3
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8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
The brightest star in pop basks in soul-piercing honesty — and has a lot of fun doing it
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
The controversy-courting star is in perfect alignment with producer Jack Antonoff, on detailed and utterly delightful tracks that make her previous hit album seem rudimentary in comparison
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
Aptly closing with ‘Goodbye’ this is a record that feels punchy and incisive – Sabrina Carpenter’s next move is assured, intentional, and side-steps the pitfalls placed along the way. Her time is now
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
Her lyrical ability to write a double entendre needs to be studied in a lab
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Her great seventh album delivers a thoroughly modern tour of dating set to a Seventies pastiche sound
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
Pop's pithiest lyricist hones the fun and flirty persona that's made her a superstar
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Even when Carpenter over-ices the cake, the bite underneath is her own – funny, flirty, occasionally feral, and unmistakably Sabrina
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7.9
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7.9 |
Pitchfork
Delivering formally classic, facepalm-clever pop songs with a heavy wink, Sabrina Carpenter’s new album takes her persona to its apex, and maybe as far as it can go
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7.1
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7.1 |
Beats Per Minute
Carpenter knows the heartbreak is real, but the laughter is what keeps you alive long enough to sing about it
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
A short but not-so-sweet effort from the mega-star who can’t quite fully translate her magnetism to record
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7.0
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7.0 |
Slant Magazine
If possible, the album is even hornier than its predecessor
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7.0
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7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It’s a clear step ahead of Short and Sweet, and hopefully, will be another stepping stone on the path to her magnum opus
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6.2
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6.2 |
Northern Transmissions
Can an old dog learn new tricks? Maybe, but Carpenter performs the same ones. “You think that I’m gonna fuck with your head?” she asks at the start of one song, “Well, you’re absolutely right.” Not a great joke if you already know the punchline
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
There are some sensational songs on the pop star’s follow-up to ‘Short n’ Sweet’, but too much of the rest struggles for lift-off
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6.0
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The Irish Times
The star’s ambitious LP lacks the sense of fun that crackled through Short n’ Sweet
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
The singer treads a thin line between smutty pastiche and straight-faced pop while CMAT gets serious in ‘Euro-Country’
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
An adventurous new album that leans into her now-trademark sense of humour and innuendo, with mixed results
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5.0
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5.0 |
Exclaim
It tells you over and over again who she is — horny, playful and confident — without giving the listener the thrill of really feeling much of anything at all
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4.5
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4.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Man’s Best Friend is sorely lacking any kind of substance on both sides of the aisle
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Arts Desk
It is not cohesive or intelligent enough to be so explicit, and is far too overt to be a fun pop album
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