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8.3
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8.3 |
A.V. Club
Anti’s tracks combine to create a picture of Rihanna at her most relatable and enthralling
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8.0
83185
8.0 |
The Music
Considered, nuanced, and grows on you with each listen — brewing excitement for what direction she'll take next
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8.0
83178
8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
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8.0
83180
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Feels like a step forwards into fascinating new territory
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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
Perhaps her most complete and confident record to date
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8.0
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8.0 |
Rolling Stone
After years as a singer largely defined by her production, it finally feels like Rihanna is in charge of her own sound, remaking pop on her own terms
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8.0
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8.0 |
FasterLouder
After ANTI, it’s truly impossible to predict where Rihanna will go next. And that’s even more exciting than the album itself
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
By the end of Anti, Rihanna may not arrive at any definitive conclusions about her art but she's allowed herself to be unguarded and anti-commercial, resulting in her most compelling record to date
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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
While it’s easy to complain that Rihanna could have been a bit more daring, ‘ANTI’ is a bold statement
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8.0
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Mojo
Contrary and compelling. Print edition only
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7.7
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7.7 |
Pitchfork
Some of ANTI’s most striking tracks are also its nastiest
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Rihanna takes risks and disregards convention in a way that only a true superstar could
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7.5
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7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
There’s still plenty of that classic Rihanna magic beneath the record’s funhouse aesthetic
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As a whole, Anti might not be as provocative of a statement as Rihanna hopes for it to be, but it’s still fascinating to see an artist in the midst of a metamorphosis
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7.0
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The 405
She's come back on her own terms, rewarding fans who've adorned her despite the musical hiatus by opening the mystery veil and showing us exactly what she’s thinking and feeling when the spotlights are lowered
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7.0
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7.0 |
Crack
Despite its missteps, ANTI never sounds fake
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spin
ANTI is Rihanna’s first aesthetically personal album, and throughout its disorderly roaming, it remains revelatory in a strict sense; it’s a musical step sideways but an artistic step up
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6.0
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6.0 |
NME
An intriguing soundtrack to an era of change
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6.0
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6.0 |
State
Bitch Better Have My Money’ is pretty much better than everything on here, and if that’s the direction she ditched in favour of this edgy, ballsy but ultimately very uneven soundscape, we can’t help but think what might have been
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
Patchy and beguiling, it never feels quite sure of itself. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Time Out
She certainly makes this banger-free album pretty gripping
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6.0
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6.0 |
Digital Spy
There's filler, there's flashes of genius, there's an attempt at that classic album. But ultimately, we can't help but feel it's a slight Anti-climax
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
A confused collection that doesn’t merit the years of build-up
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
Sprawling, uneven, exploratory and opaque: the sound of an artist who’s worked out what she doesn’t want to be, without really deciding what she does
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5.5
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5.5 |
Beardfood
One for Rihanna fans only
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5.0
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5.0 |
Slant Magazine
The ultimate impression the album leaves isn't just that of an artist who failed to follow through on her vision, but who never bothered to conceive one in the first place
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5.0
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Drowned In Sound
Sonically, Anti is defiantly low key with very little to quicken the pulse
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4.0
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4.0 |
PopMatters
After a three year absence, Anti is a massive letdown. It’s the first major disappointment for an artist who so far has turned everything she’s touched into gold
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Observer
If only more of these songs could actually carry the weight of Rihanna’s bid for freedom – a bid that is, ultimately, half-baked
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4.0
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God Is In The TV
There’s no doubt that it’s the exactly the album Rihanna wanted to make at this stage in her career. It’s just too bad her vision seems utterly lacking in focus
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