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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
Taken on its own musical terms, Red Pill Blues is a sleek, assured affair, one that sustains a seductive neon-streaked mood from beginning to end
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Whether skating over house beats on "Plastic Rose" or cruising through a ballad like "Denim Jacket," Levine proves himself a pliant star of Jacksonian ease and Stingly self-assurance
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
Smooth high vocals and catchy tunes give the songs a degree of charm. Deft production lends depth to the slick music
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
Superstar rap guest spots can’t disrupt the torpor that too often becomes a default setting
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
The overall impression is one of a band best enjoyed in microdoses
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5.0
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5.0 |
Spectrum Culture
All ‘80s nostalgia, electro-sheen minimalism, the kind of artfully machined simplicity we’ve come to know and expect from modern Top 40 mercantilism
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4.8
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Pitchfork
Adam Levine’s band return for their sixth album of smooth, professional, antiseptic soft-rock, which somehow also features Kendrick Lamar, Future, and A$AP Rocky
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Independent
There’s something irredeemably lo-cal about Maroon 5, a quality that enables their bland pop to slip smoothly into the charts without leaving any trace
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4.0
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4.0 |
Slant Magazine
It's still a latter-day Maroon 5 album, which means it also has more than its share of bland, underachieving grist for suburban shopping centers and “rhythmic pop” radio
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Irish Times
The hook-drenched Red Pill Blues is sure to be another super-smash, which means we’ll be trapped in the Maroon 5 matrix for some while yet
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2.0
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2.0 |
The Skinny
An album full of bewilderingly bad chart hits
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