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Midnight Memories

One Direction

Midnight Memories

Third album in three years from the massively-popular X Factor-propelled boy band

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Syco / Columbia
UK Release date
25/11/2013
US Release date
26/11/2013
  1. 8.5 |   Billboard

    Follows up on what worked best on last year's "Take Me Home," and tosses in some proficient new ideas to keep listeners eager for the band's continued evolution
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  2. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    It is all so swaggeringly confident and honed to a perfect point, it is hard not to be caught up in its own sense of conviction
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Another satisfying album that does everything a One D album should do and then some
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  4. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    There’s enough personality, charm, and dramatic solos to satisfy fans, and enough incremental moves toward artistic credibility to at least give the band a chance at an enduring career
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  5. 6.0 |   Spin

    As long as Midnight Memories offers chorus after chorus of Gary Glitter-style fodderstompf, it sounds like the best boy-band album since No Strings Attached
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  6. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Who would have predicted the triumphant power chords of the title track or the cod indie-rock styling of “Little Black Dress”?
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  7. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The scalawaggish quintet is impossible to dislike unless you involuntarily hate everything young women love
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  8. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    A mildly more rocky affair than its predecessors
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  9. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Its dynamics seem to be targeting some notional American heartland at least 30 years older than 1D's fanbase
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  10. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    They joyfully plunder rock riffs and hip-hop beats, but a logjam of lousy ballads suggests Bryan Adams embodies their ideal of maturity
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  11. 4.0 |   Time Out

    They’re heading that tiny bit closer to adulthood – and that’s no fun at all
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