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  • Summary: The second full-length release for Los Angeles R&B artist Syd features guest appearances from Kehlani, Lucky Daye and Smino.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Apr 11, 2022
    90
    ‘Broken Hearts Club’ - performed, co-written and co-produced by Syd – feels like definitive moment as the R&B mainstay truly settles into her solo endeavour.
  2. With ‘Broken Hearts Club’, Syd has crafted an album that elevates her to new heights – one that positions her as an exceptional, peerless talent.
  3. Apr 8, 2022
    80
    Guided by Syd’s laudable ear and angelic voice, Broken Hearts Club succeeds in sewing a narrative of love grown and wilted.
  4. Apr 8, 2022
    80
    It’s vulnerable, it’s heartfelt, and above all it feels real.
  5. Apr 8, 2022
    80
    There’s no clever foreshadowing here, and the real-time emotions make the death of the relationship so much more powerful. Both she and we got something terrific out of it.
  6. The Wire
    Jun 14, 2022
    80
    A song cycle following the blossoming and sudden death of a relationship, the conceit frontloads Broken Heart Club with joyous dizzy pop in “Tie The Knot” and the aptly titled but most definitely not saccharine “Sweet”. When heartbreak comes she’s brilliantly poised, pleading on “Heartfelt Freestyle” then flipping a finger to regret on “Missing Out”. [Jun 2022, p.62]
  7. Apr 11, 2022
    60
    Bennett’s voice is ultimately too thin to carry the emotive heft of her heartbreak material, and Broken Hearts Club works best when she facilitates others to take up its mantle.

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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. Apr 18, 2022
    8
    An intoxicating musical mixture of funky bass rhythms, soulful guitar licks, twinkling piano and Syd's supple, sultry vocals ensures thatAn intoxicating musical mixture of funky bass rhythms, soulful guitar licks, twinkling piano and Syd's supple, sultry vocals ensures that "Broken Hearts Club" consistently delivers moment-to-moment with regard to the sadness and sensuality promised by the record's title, though it's sadly held back from reaching the heights it otherwise could've by synth lines and vocal delivery that fall flat or grow numbing with repetition in more than a few spots.

    Choice Cuts: "CYBAH (feat. Lucky Daye)," "Fast Car," "Control," "Out Loud (feat. Kehlani)," "Heartfelt Freestyle"
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