Never Gone
by Backstreet Boys
This is the first album in five years for the boy- er... man-band.
| LABEL: |
Jive |
| RELEASE DATE: |
14 June 2005 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Pop |

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60
All Music Guide
Never Gone [is] a solid adult contemporary album, which will please both BSB diehards and the dwindling ranks who wish that the glory days of Jon Secada never ended, but its relative strength does highlight one problem with the album: this kind of music doesn't sound quite as convincing when delivered by a group of guys as it does by one singer.

50
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
Lest you doubted it, this is grotesque.

50
E! Online
Even if they aren't Never Gone, their inspiration certainly is.

50
Entertainment Weekly
This corny comeback is hardly a triumphant return. [24 Jun 2005, p.165]
40
Blender
Never Gone's rock ballads are painfully and sometimes powerfully earnest demands for meaning and redemption. [Aug 2005, p.108]
20
PopMatters
What stops the Backstreet Boys from being any fun is, I think, their inability/refusal to wink at their audience.

20
Rolling Stone
The Backstreet men rarely accelerate beyond a mid-tempo thud. [16 Jun 2005, p.100]

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