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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
There’s nothing here to quite match his finest moments, but nothing stinks
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8.0
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8.0 |
Paste Magazine
We should be so lucky to have L.A. Reid in charge of the next vault project if these are the kind of results he’s going to deliver
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Xscape is the posthumous album that does more than reminisce about Jackson’s legacy. It honors it
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7.0
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7.0 |
NME
A relentlessly upbeat rebirth
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7.0
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7.0 |
Beardfood
The man was a genius, and even his outtakes are quality
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7.0
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7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It's just nice to hear a posthumous record that acknowledges the legacy and quality of Michael Jackson's material while trying to sonically expand upon his past glories
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
A worthy and memorable coda to Jackson's career
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Timbaland and Jerome Harmon lead a team of producers who've added bulk and even dubstep eruptions to Jackson's unfinished tracks
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6.0
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6.0 |
Digital Spy
The songs selected were written between 1983 and 2001, and the producers have worked carefully to recreate the Jackson era they originated in, while lightly glazing them with contemporary electronics and effects
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6.0
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6.0 |
Entertainment.ie
At just eight songs and barely clocking over thirty minutes, fans of Jackson will undoubtedly find something here to love
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Justifies its existence with a handful of potential singles that stand up to Jacko's peerless oeuvre
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
Obsessive fans will find treats but Xscape has no hope of sitting comfortably beside the classics
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
Too sketchy to qualify as proper songs but full of supple grooves, like superior filler from an album never made
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
An understandably ad hoc collection that conjures up snatches of wonder from scraps of genius
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
Judge the eight tracks here on their own merit, which, for all their inevitable lack of coherence as a set, serve to remind you why Jackson was once pop's premier genius
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
His talent survives in these songs. So does its fatal fracture
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A record that is, aside from its opener, best described by the withering adjective “inoffensive”
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4.1
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4.1 |
Pitchfork
It doesn't help that the outtakes they're dealing with are several tiers below the stuff that ended up on Jackson's later albums
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3.0
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3.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s been decided that there’s actually quite a bit more money to be mulched out of his name
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2.0
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2.0 |
The Music
If Jackson wanted these demos to see the light of day, wouldn’t he have released them back then?
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