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8.0
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All Music
Although very eclectic taste is required to appreciate in full, this is clearly Rowland’s brightest, most confident album yet
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8.0
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The Guardian
She's unlikely to dislodge Queen B, but this album shows Rowland to be worthy of consideration in her own right
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7.5
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A.V. Club
While Mrs. Jay-Z settles into a life of respectability, her old bandmate is relishing her role as the fun single friend
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6.0
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Rolling Stone
She's a strong, agile R&B vocalist who generates little excitement—adept, but not convincing
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6.0
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musicOMH
40 minutes of precision-tuned pre-club glossiness - without a doubt perfectly serviceable. The only trouble of course is that these days, simply being serviceable just isn’t good enough
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6.0
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6.0 |
BBC
Clubbier cuts like Forever and a Day and current single Down for Whatever suggest that Rowland's future could lie as a kind of dance diva with street cred
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6.0
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The Observer
Much of the material is generic: bland Euro bangers such as the abjectly titled "Down for Whatever" abound
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5.0
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Slant Magazine
The inherent blandness of Rowland's persona makes for too much roundly mediocre material
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4.0
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Evening Standard
Even a cameo from the usually brilliant Lil Wayne fails to liven things up
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4.0
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The Independent
The lack of inspiration here is nowhere better conveyed than on "Down for Whatever"
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4.0
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Daily Telegraph
Rowlands’ mighty vocals would obliterate her Saturday evening charges’, but the music is sterile pro forma club r’n’b and steamy slow jams
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4.0
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The Scotsman
She delivers a fierce vocal performance in places but undercuts this by trading in platitudes and anonymous dancefloor filler
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Digital Fix
The whole affair has a phoned-in quality
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