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8.0
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8.0 |
American Songwriter
She prioritizes beats and sounds more than emotional tricks of, say, vocal vibrato. On “Shy Boy,” Jepsen takes a subtle chapter out of the Black Keys’ stadium sounds. It’s big, like a skyscraper
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
Carly Rae Jepsen’s The Loveliest Time expands her B-Sides offerings by creating a compilation that distinguishes itself from its predecessor
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7.8
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7.8 |
Paste Magazine
The album ends with “Weekend Love,” a delightful slice of slightly psychedelic indie-ish-club-pop co-written with Ethan Gruska, best known for his work with Phoebe Bridgers and Kimbra. The rest of The Loveliest Time finds Jepsen blasting off in different directions—the dubby soul of “Kollage,” the throbbing synth-rock of “Stadium Love,” for example—with varying degrees of success
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7.7
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7.7 |
Northern Transmissions
It might not satisfy the itch long-term Jepsen fans expect with her pure pop, but The Loveliest Time is her most experimental and surprising work to date
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7.4
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7.4 |
Pitchfork
Once again Carly Rae Jepsen’s B-sides are just as good if not better than her A-sides
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7.4
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7.4 |
Beats Per Minute
When she is not absolutely elated and high on the rush of romance, she is not afraid to contemplate what’s going on with herself: there is loveliness in her loneliest time and loneliness in her loveliest time – they are not mutually exclusive but rather gloriously connected
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7.0
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7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Albums like The Loveliest Time are deliberately fragmentary, meant to fill in the pieces of her discography, and in that sense, this one is a wild success
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6.0
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6.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It contains a large chunk of the weakest Carly Rae Jepsen tracks to date
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