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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: Recorded over two weeks, the dark and personal album was released for free on the Internet under his real name.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Oct 3, 2011
    80
    1977 may be a blip for this artist in regard to its genesis, but for anyone other than his ex-wife (and perhaps himself) it's an utter pleasure.
  2. Oct 3, 2011
    79
    As a piece of music, it eschews the richness and lushness of those albums, a sound that's felt on the verge of becoming stale. 1977 could be called a palate cleanser, but it's way too torn-up to be that.
  3. Oct 3, 2011
    70
    If the album weren't free it would definitely be worth paying for the aforementioned highlights alone, with none of the filler seeming disappointing so much as more of the same.
  4. Oct 3, 2011
    70
    That leaves us with a placeholder project while Dream sorts out some contractual "issues" with Def Jam over his delayed fourth album Diary of a Madman, and frankly I'll take this placeholder over 90% of R&B's official projects.
  5. Dec 31, 2012
    70
    Beyond their immediate allure, the tracks here benefit from a profusion of weird touches that elevate and separate them from boilerplate exercises.
  6. Q Magazine
    Feb 8, 2013
    60
    It's a solid album. [Mar 2013, p.99]
  7. Oct 3, 2011
    40
    Awkward and embarrassing, the mixtape as a whole feels like a PR move to get you to listen to Nash-free embedded song Silly by new protégé Casha.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jun 22, 2013
    10
    The only artist to never make a bad album wake me when its over is great

    production on point lyrics are deep dream's vocals are
    The only artist to never make a bad album wake me when its over is great

    production on point

    lyrics are deep

    dream's vocals are smooth

    and it was free
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