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8.3
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8.3 |
A.V. Club
Reaffirms The-Dream as R&B’s most tireless auteur
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7.4
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7.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
IV Play succeeds in spades with its production and songwriting
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7.0
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7.0 |
Fact
Comes off as a bitter and conceptually convoluted response to contemporary R&B
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
The kaleidoscope R&B butter-storms he cooks up give his sexcapades a hallucinatory drama
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7.0
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7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The album’s emotive selection happens to be its most musically daring as well
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
IV Play may not always hit that high bar, but the artist's persistence and perfectionism are clear, and the results bear as pure of a pedigree as ever
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6.9
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6.9 |
Pitchfork
For the first time it feels like he’s trying to keep up with everyone else
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6.0
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6.0 |
The 405
Feels like Omarion and The Weeknd had an illegitimate son who constantly tries to live up to his daddies' success
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6.0
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6.0 |
Paste Magazine
So Dream isn’t in a laughing mood, but he’s wrong to leave behind the guileless sense of wonder that used to be his calling card—the imposture frowning his way through IV Play doesn’t cut it
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6.0
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PopMatters
Depending on your taste, plenty of these songs can start out with interesting ideas before failing to capitalize on them, whether through repetitive natures or childish lyrics
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6.0
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6.0 |
No Ripcord
The album feels rushed, likely due to Nash’s label responsibilities elsewhere and a lot of the production feels like notes and sketches that were never fully fleshed out
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4.0
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4.0 |
All Music
He's never been one for lyrical subtlety, but this set contains several stretches of monotonous, joyless carnality
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Guardian
Genius rarely lasts
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