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10.0
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10.0 |
XS Noize
Most of the album displays that clever understanding of ensuring that super cutting-edge production doesn’t detract from the quality of the actual songs
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10.0
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10.0 |
Dork
This isn’t an album built like a straight line from hook to hook. It moves in waves, often favouring texture and atmosphere over immediate release
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9.0
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9.0 |
DIY
An excellent record that is at points raw but more often joyful; proof of the importance of taking time out
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The pop megastar is in search of love, ecstasy, enlightenment, and all sorts of fun on a fourth album that subverts expectations and gets weird in delightful ways
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
The electronic palette moves him in a fresh direction, and although some of the mid-section does congeal into one, the album’s overall arc is a successful embrace of personal, and above all sensual, evolution. An undeniable pop landmark, when Harry Styles lures you on to the dancefloor, few can resist
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone UK
The star has drawn from eclectic influences to create a joyous fourth album that’s impossible to pigeonhole
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8.0
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NME
The former One Direction star’s fourth album finds him taking a new approach to life – and to music – with liberating results
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8.0
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8.0 |
Hot Press
At its best, the album showcases a more mature Styles pushing his sound forward while still delivering the kind of effortlessly catchy pop he’s built his storied career on
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8.0
143919
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
As is typical of a Harry Styles album, there are a few great tracks and a few that fill the gaps between them nicely
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Harry turns his relationship woes and existential musings into dance floor fodder
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7.0
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7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It may not be perfect, but the hustle deserves respect
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6.5
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6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Wisely shoves Harry Styles out of the spotlight in favor of compelling nostalgia for a not-too-distant musical past
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6.0
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6.0 |
God Is In The TV
He’s never afraid to make the music he wants, for good, bad, or indifferent
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6.0
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6.0 |
PopMatters
Harry Styles sounds tired of trying to check boxes on someone else’s list, and he’s trying to figure out his own sound as an adult man in his third decade
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
The music on Styles’s new album is muted, subtle and pleasant – but from the title downwards, he has a real problem with words
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5.6
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5.6 |
Pitchfork
The decaf dance-pop on Harry Styles’ fourth album is just unremarkable. Even songs about the emptiness of pop stardom succumb to tasteful restraint
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5.0
143918
5.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As the number of listens abound, there’s an ultimately off-putting weight of emptiness presented via the carefully bare and subdued instrumentation
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5.0
143888
5.0 |
Paste Magazine
Inspired by European clubs, Italian getaways, LCD Soundsystem, and concert crowds, the Grammy-winning popstar sounds like a guest on his own album
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5.0
143912
5.0 |
musicOMH
His charisma and star power remain resolutely undimmed, but this muted and downbeat album offers little immediate with which to grab the attention
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