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10.0
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NME
A tour-de-force of production chops that cements April Harper Grey as a key auteur in the future of the genre
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10.0
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10.0 |
Dork
This is a proper pop album, not in spite of its oddness, but because of it
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9.0
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9.0 |
Northern Transmissions
An album that finds itself utterly dedicated to populist pop perfection, melding its past, present and future together for one of the year’s most earnest displays of grandeur
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9.0
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9.0 |
Clash
It’s a scintillating experience, perhaps the moment where underscores fully out-strips her peers, and comes into her own
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8.6
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8.6 |
Pitchfork
The former electro-pop enfant terrible swings big on her latest album, compressing all her split personalities and eclectic tastes into a high-gloss, high-stakes gamble to remake pop on her own terms
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8.6
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8.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It’s technical excellence as a musical product cannot be overstated. For a pop album to be this busy yet possess a pocket as deep and rich as underscores displays here is simply amazing
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8.3
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8.3 |
Paste Magazine
April Harper Grey’s latest hits all the beats of a classic pop record — a choreo-primed single, a power ballad, a post-breakup closure anthem — without overstaying its welcome
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
Performing, writing and producing everything herself, April Grey pares back her hyperpop electronics for an LP in thrall to 90s pop-R&B, with songs that big stars would die for
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
On U, she finds a clearly-defined, rounded-out identity in her music for the first time, and she delivers the most immediate and the most robust work of her career
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
It’s a confident evolution from her 2020 EP Character Development!, with Grey producing an utterly refined sound that encapsulates the highs of the 2010 pop, bro-step and bubblegum bass eras
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