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TLC

TLC

TLC

Fifth and final album from the Atlanta R&B group featuring two surviving members Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Cooking Vinyl
UK Release date
30/06/2017
US Release date
30/06/2017
  1. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    TLC are the second most successful girl group of all time (after the Spice Girls) and this record proves that their winning formula still works
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  2. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    TLC’s swansong is one of the year’s great comebacks
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  3. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Their fifth and allegedly final album, proves that they’re still crazy, sexy, cool
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  4. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    Chilli and T-Boz have crafted a conscious epilogue to their catalog and a love letter to their fans. It hits every style in their vast range and dignifies their career
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  5. 7.0 |   Prefix

    Iconic R&B act return with Kickstarter-funded album that largely proves to be money well-pledged
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The new songs here may not launch them back out into the commercial music stratosphere, but they definitely deserve to stay in orbit
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  7. 7.0 |   The Music

    A familiar sound delivered with peak contemporary production
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  8. 6.1 |   Paste Magazine

    TLC doesn’t take any creative risks and, in doing so, ends up lukewarm and average — two words that would have never been used to describe TLC in their heyday
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  9. 6.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    If TLC accomplishes one thing, it’s that it shows the distinction between being nostalgic and reliving the past
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  10. 6.0 |   Clash

    ‘TLC’ isn’t the ‘No Scrubs’ level of perfect comeback album that we really wanted, but then again, in the group’s own words: “Perfect girls ain’t real”
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  11. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    This is not an incredible album. But in the context TLC’s legacy - as a goodbye tour to end one of the biggest girl groups of our time - there is still something touching here
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    There's a cheesy feel to many tracks but it's good fun. Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   Mojo

    TLC are clearly more comfortable reminiscing, making their good-natured fifth less futureshock, more time machine. Print edition only

  14. 6.0 |   NME

    Feels more purposeful than the average reunion effort because it was crowdfunded by fans
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  15. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Overall, a solid album, just not quite up to the legacy
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  16. 4.0 |   Slant Magazine

    TLC succeeds only to the extent that it captures the sound and style of the group's golden era, but absent of Left Eye's signature swagger
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