Boys Don't Cry
by Rumer
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Sep 25, 2012
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Mojo
    Jul 18, 2012
    60
    Boys Don't Cry is an unashamed stopgap. [Jun 2012, p.86]
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  2. musicOMH.com
    May 29, 2012
    60
    It's Tesco shelf filler, it's Father's Day fodder, it's the stack of cover versions every lazy advertising executive is craving now that Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want is all played out.
  3. The Guardian
    May 29, 2012
    60
    At times, they are smothered in tastefulness, all emotion neutralised.
  5. The Independent (UK)
    May 29, 2012
    60
    The homogeneity of the album's arrangements effectively denudes the individual songs of their emotional power.
  6. The New York Times
    Aug 14, 2012
    50
    Rumer can't conjure the right twinge of dissolution for Neil Young's "A Man Needs a Maid," and her lack of urgency on "Soulsville," by Isaac Hayes, is damning. But elsewhere she slides into the premise as into a tub full of suds, communing with Townes van Zandt's "Flyin' Shoes" and Jimmy Webb's "P. F. Sloan."

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