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8.0
140314
8.0 |
NME
The main pop girl contender sharpens her sound on her third outing, recalling 2000s Rihanna, Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls
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8.0
140315
8.0 |
Clash
With its club-ready beats that draw listeners to the dance floor, ‘So Close To What’ is a compelling addition to Tate McRae’s discography
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8.0
140342
8.0 |
Dork
Confident, assured and revelling in her pop dreams
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8.0
140376
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
So Close To What is hit after hit – it’s her most convincing argument of superstardom yet
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7.0
140316
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Pop star's latest So Close To What is a fast-moving set of darkly-hued pop
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7.0
140805
7.0 |
PopMatters
Tate McRae’s well-crafted third album, So Close to What, cements her as a pop mainstay, but leaves the future unclear
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6.5
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6.5 |
Beats Per Minute
The project is full of snappy, polished pop-R&B songs that never go too far astray in quality but can be a repetitive experience when considered as a whole
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6.0
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6.0 |
Pitchfork
On her third album, the Canadian singer and dancer amps up the 2000s influence and dials up the sex. Though it’s her most mature release yet, the music still sounds tedious and reheated
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5.8
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5.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Tate and her team clearly have an ear for sticky melodies and the lack of necessary lore is appreciated, but there still is a very pervasive sense of figuring things out here
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4.0
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4.0 |
Paste Magazine
Apart from a few notable exceptions, the songs on Tate McRae's new album blend into a miasma of nasal, mumbled lyrics about love affairs and submerged-sounding R&B-adjacent pop melodies
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