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9.1
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9.1 |
A.V. Club
All rippling synths, distant pulses, and purposeful empty space—his follow-up album is plenty downbeat, but it’s also gorgeous, an immersive headphone masterwork that’s tender and intimate
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9.1
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Pretty Much Amazing
A farewell to the up-and-coming mixtape Drizzy and the beginning of a 25-year-old veteran having full command of his verbal arsenal
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9.0
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9.0 |
PopMatters
Sure he’s corny, but he’s also an excellent songwriter, and he owns his quirks, which for my money is all I ask for from a pop artist. Especially if you’re going to make something as shiny and attractive to the ears as Take Care
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9.0
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9.0 |
Slant Magazine
Remarkably consistent
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Take Care is something approaching a minor classic
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8.6
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8.6 |
Pitchfork
[His] unrepentant navel-gazing and obsession with lost love reach new levels on his second proper LP
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8.5
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8.5 |
BBC
At its best, Take Care surpasses the impact of Thank Me Later
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
With Take Care, Drake has his accelerated Kanye West moment — when a little too much ambition and all the asshole feelings he's got inside coalesce into an insular, indulgent, sad-sack hip-hop epic
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Independent
He brings something new to the usual hip-hop parade of brandy and bitches, lasciviousness and loyalty
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8.0
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NME
An affecting masterpiece easily on par with his debut
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8.0
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8.0 |
No Ripcord
[Drake] is fast becoming a self-praising philanderer, the kind of guy who doesn’t see any reason to be apologetic to his girl because fame is his new game
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Take Care truly goes for it with luxe, expansive production
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8.0
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8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Take Care shines bright, utilizing the same concepts and notions as its predecessor but with far more lethal and appealing results
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
A mass appeal pop record with ambitious and progressive production
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8.0
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8.0 |
AU Review
Drake has crafted an astute, cohesive masterwork
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8.0
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The Irish Times
A bit of a masterclass in melancholic lyrical soul-searching, about lost love and spurned lovers
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7.0
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7.0 |
Prefix
Drake would do well to spend less time looking in the mirror
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Take Care is dense and takes a while to digest, but once you’re in Drake’s world there’s no escaping
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6.8
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6.8 |
Beats Per Minute
He now seems trapped between the desire to create a product and a piece of music
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6.0
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6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Both silkily seductive and moodily narcissistic
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
It's great at times, but far more work than it should be. Print edition only
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4.0
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4.0 |
Rave Magazine
Another album full of his guilt-wracked declarations of what awful things he’s done, blended with his usual artless come-ons
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3.0
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3.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Simply put, Drake isn't interesting and hearing him introspectively croon about his many qualities is like being stuck at a party with that guy who has no social skills
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3.0
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3.0 |
Entertainment.ie
Slickly produced and competently arranged. It's just that Drake himself comes across as incredibly arrogant and full of himself
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2.0
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2.0 |
The Guardian
As a rapper, he is inert to the point of catatonia and his foregrounded voice becomes swiftly intolerable
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