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9.0
45500
9.0 |
The AU Review
They can remain comforted that their last effort was as worthy as any other
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8.0
43618
8.0 |
Mojo
At its best so wistfully reliving our golden yesterdays. Print edition only
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8.0
42310
8.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s a remarkable improvement on Wilson’s recent solo work
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7.5
44241
7.5 |
Beats Per Minute
The album as a whole isn’t flawless, yet by sounding utterly enchanting during its climax it leaves a listener feeling genuinely touched. From a such legendary band, you could ask for nothing more
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7.0
42345
7.0 |
PopMatters
Not a top-tier Beach Boys album. But it’s neither a reach nor hyperbole to say this final suite is among the strongest, most affecting music Wilson has ever recorded. It seems right that his old bandmates are a part of it
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7.0
42369
7.0 |
DIY
Whilst this might not be what God actually made the radio for, if this record turns out to actually be their swansong, then it's a far more fitting end to the story than 'Stars And Stripes Volume 1' ever would have been
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7.0
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7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
An immensely satisfying and interesting outing from a group long thought to have transformed into a living jukebox. It’s better than it has any right to be, and that’s a wonderful contradiction in itself
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6.0
42487
6.0 |
Paste Magazine
While Radio does find the good ol’ boys harmonizing together again (with a subtle sweetness that effortlessly recalls their glory days), it’s a Beach Boys album only because Wilson willed it to be
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6.0
42501
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Encapsulates all that’s good and all that’s bad about The Beach Boys
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6.0
42393
6.0 |
NME
It's good to have them back - but only just
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6.0
42442
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
The album is an un- even but deeply touching work by a clearly flawed Great Band – one that, at its best, always aimed for the heavens, even if it didn't always reach them
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6.0
42350
6.0 |
The Scotsman
There are glimpses of the old chemistry but these are only fleeting echoes of a more glorious past
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6.0
42298
6.0 |
The Irish Times
At times when those voices blend together majestically you can only swoon at the beauty of the music, but too often flaccid musical ideas and maudlin lyrics spoil this Beach Boys party
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6.0
42326
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Approach with caution. But approach
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6.0
42296
6.0 |
The Guardian
Exquisite beauty nestles alongside stuff that's wildly misjudged, painful honesty alongside the constant burnishing of a myth about youth and sunshine
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6.0
42629
6.0 |
musicOMH
As mixed a bag as their latest offering is, you can't help but feel that, like Calippos, The Beach Boys will forever be an intrinsic part of summer
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6.0
42721
6.0 |
Rave Magazine
It won’t stand up to their best work, but it could comfortably slot next to patchy mid-‘70s efforts like Surf’s Up or Sunflower
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5.8
42423
5.8 |
A.V. Club
The album summons up some of the old magic when the group gets ambitious on the three-song album-closing suite
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5.0
42407
5.0 |
Uncut
Even Wilson's melancholy feels calculated. Print edition only
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5.0
42564
5.0 |
BBC
Whereas once this was a group whose effervescence gave their music the sparkle of life, today The Beach Boys are merely slick and anodyne
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5.0
42297
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
It isn’t terrible or embarrassing, it is just a bit safe, and subsequently washed over me. Saying that, it does contain the odd spark and flicker of life
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5.0
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5.0 |
Under The Radar
In the end, That's Why God Made the Radio isn't a bad album. It's just not the album everyone wanted. And, if the final third of the album is any indication, it's not even the best album this collection of musicians can make
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4.0
42320
4.0 |
The Independent
It's pitifully thin stuff
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2.0
43120
2.0 |
Blurt
No, that's why God made the CD player's "skip" and "program" buttons
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