User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
  • Record Label:
  • Release Date:
Elytral Image
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
tbd

No user score yet- Be the first to review!

  • Summary: The second full-length release for the British singer-songwriter was produced by Thom Monahan.
Buy Now
Buy on
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Mojo
    Aug 28, 2017
    80
    Big, brave and laudably odd it is, then. [Oct 2017, p.93]
  2. Q Magazine
    Aug 29, 2017
    80
    All in all, a brooding and brilliant record. [Oct 2017, p.103]
  3. Sep 11, 2017
    80
    Elytral may not be an easy record, but it is strangely affirmative and rewarding.
  4. Sep 5, 2017
    76
    Credit Epworth with eschewing any formula for the sake of instant accommodation. Music this intriguing, this intense, speaks volumes on its own.
  5. Uncut
    Aug 28, 2017
    70
    Synths and drum machines dominate, courtesy of Epworth and producer Thom Monahan, lending Elytral a seemly patina of '80s dark-pop. [Oct 2017, p.26]
  6. Aug 28, 2017
    60
    If the album’s remainder veers from hit to ho-hum, the Death In Vegas-ish bass pulse and deep-immersion dream-techno of Me Swimming offer clear hits of hypnotic electronica.
  7. 60
    Elytral lacks the sort of direction or structure that linger in the mind, but has a delightful exploratory freedom, as seen in the sweet, warm analogue ambience of Surprise Yourself.

See all 8 Critic Reviews