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8.0
84989
8.0 |
The FT
A surprisingly good album
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7.5
85554
7.5 |
Beardfood
It may lack a ‘What You Waiting For?‘ but radio fodder still exists, despite protestations
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7.0
84867
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Wastes no time asserting its status as a breakup album
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6.0
84865
6.0 |
NME
The No Doubt singer deals with her divorce from Gavin Rossdale with glossy pop and nonchalant swagger
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6.0
84866
6.0 |
All Music
Manages to be as fleet, giddy, and charming as Gwen Stefani ever is
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6.0
84887
6.0 |
Evening Standard
A calmer Stefani is still more appealing than most
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6.0
84915
6.0 |
The Observer
A little more courage would not have gone amiss
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6.0
84922
6.0 |
FasterLouder
Nostalgia comes and goes in 20-year cycles. 21 years after Tragic Kingdom, Gwen Stefani still fits right in
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
On her first solo album in a decade, the enduring star rocks some bubbly optimism
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6.0
85595
6.0 |
Q
Stefani has lost none of her pop spirit. Print edition only
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5.9
84920
5.9 |
Pitchfork
Gwen Stefani's first solo album in a decade finds her keeping up with new pop sounds while writing from a new perspective: the quintessential divorcee, fresh off a messy split
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5.8
84988
5.8 |
A.V. Club
While the album has its flaws, it is undeniably compelling when its glimmers of vulnerability push to the forefront
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5.0
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5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Half-baked in places and perhaps a little too safe in others, but it’s really, properly genuine, and if she doesn’t leave it a decade next time, Stefani might still be able to make a great pop record. It’s in there, somewhere
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5.0
84868
5.0 |
Spin
The pop-rock of the album’s first half is relaxed, breezy, intimate, and dull; the twitching beatscapes of its back end are tense, fiery, theatrical, and void
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4.0
84864
4.0 |
The Arts Desk
The result is strangely depressing
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4.0
85078
4.0 |
The Guardian
The truth is that this feels like little more than careerist chart fodder
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3.3
84931
3.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
There’s nothing even remotely inventive here
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3.0
85037
3.0 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s got more hooks than a German slaughterhouse, but does that make it art?
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