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8.6
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8.6 |
Earbuddy
Drake never hides who he is on this release and embraces his strengths and weaknesses beautifully
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8.5
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The 405
Sonically, this is the most Drake Drake's ever been, with the signature sound he's been dancing around ever since 2009's So Far Gone
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pitchfork
Music is the real joy for Drake, and If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is best enjoyed as an exercise in the casual excellence of the artist as rhymer and purveyor of hooks
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8.3
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Consequence Of Sound
If You’re Reading manages to use these shifts for the transformative catharsis Nothing Was The Same sought
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
With If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake is giving a voice to the voiceless, spearheading Toronto as a mecca for creativity
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
For the first time in his career, Drake doesn't sound like he wants to be remembered as one of the greats. This time, he just is
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
This is a refined, looser, freer Drake
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8.0
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8.0 |
NOW
Full of sound-designed noises, dialogue and samples that simultaneously draw the listener in while keeping them at a distance, as if the main action is happening, frustratingly, just out of earshot
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8.0
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Digital Spy
This mixtape is more evidence that he and his producers are still to master that impossible blueprint of polished rap + rightful melody across a whole album
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8.0
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DIY
Drake goes after those holding him back or down, showing his teeth on a release that reminds the world he’s a rapper first, artist second
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8.0
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Beardfood
Why is this release so good? Production
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8.0
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The Music
From opener Legend to bonus closer 6PM In New York our host is all business
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8.0
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PopMatters
An encouraging omen of transformation and evolution
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Drake’s effort to encapsulate the “tape” format seeks to hold his momentum at bay while also immortalizing his consistency
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8.0
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Q
This enthralling, enigmatic statement conjures a mood all its own. Print edition only
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7.5
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Crack
As mixtapes go, a release of this standard is in its own lane
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7.0
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musicOMH
This unsettling curiosity raises more questions than it gives answers
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7.0
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Spin
Too Late definitely scans as a transitional work, a transfixing moment-in-time sort of recording that sees an unprecedentedly fortified Drake firing off paranoid and power-drunk thoughts from his basement
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6.7
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6.7 |
A.V. Club
Drake may not have an hour’s worth of great songs here, but he does have an hour’s worth of thoughts he needs to get off his chest
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6.0
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6.0 |
State
There’s nothing on here to bother on future Best Of compilation albums that Drake might be putting together
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6.0
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NME
It's striking that Drizzy is such a blockbuster draw even when he's in form as edgy and uncommercial as this
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6.0
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The FT
The beats are great: stripped-back, brooding, they add an unexpected note of restraint
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6.0
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The Observer
It’s saying something that the album stays compelling over 70 minutes
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6.0
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Clash
At times the lyrical component can leave you cold
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6.0
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The Irish Times
Melancholic stirrings, intense wistfulness and blue-tinged density which draw listeners closer
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