• Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Apr 5, 2024
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Apr 5, 2024
    60
    The duo also make room for classy experimentation, adroitly merging jangly blues with languid hip-hop on Paper Crown. The gaps are filled with a series of sunny Beatlesque numbers that feel lightweight and often rather inane. It’s an all-bases approach that doesn’t feel so much like an identity crisis as a slightly underwhelming diffusion of the band’s once heady magic.
  2. This is a pretty good Black Keys record that chiefly serves to underline how wedded they are to the fundamentals of their own process.
  3. Apr 1, 2024
    50
    What’s frustrating is that Ohio Players boasts some great hooks beneath the mire.
  4. Apr 4, 2024
    40
    There are admittedly some palatable textures here, an inevitability given the roster of talent, but so much of it is obfuscated in genre confusion and poor arrangements.

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