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The Romantic

Bruno Mars

The Romantic

First full-length solo release for 10 years from the Hawaiian pop singer-songwriter co-produced with Dernst "D'Mile" Emile II

ADM rating[?]

5.9

Label
Atlantic
UK Release date
27/02/2026
US Release date
27/02/2026
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    NEW The icing on the cake is Mars' charming devotion to wholesome terms and turns of phrase like "pretty little lady," "archangel," and "I need you on my team"
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    NEW The global superstar still might not be baring his soul in his lyrics, but his fourth solo album – and first in a decade – presents a more mature deployment of romantic clichés
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  3. 8.0 |   Rolling Stone

    NEW On his first solo album in a decade, the superstar nods to Seventies R&B and his Latin roots, while making the case that his precision-tuned throwback-pop vision is endearing in any moment
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  4. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    NEW That album is a song cycle about love that practically writes itself
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  5. 5.8 |   Consequence Of Sound

    NEW Bruno's latest effort is packed with gorgeous instrumentation but has very, very little to say
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  6. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    NEW Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas
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  7. 3.3 |   Paste Magazine

    NEW The soul-pop horndog crooner doubles down on his retro-fetishistic shtick with a treacly and uninspired solo return
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