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Apr 30, 2014I Never Learn is by no means a failure--the highs are grand when they come--but it has a tendency towards bombast and shallow self indulgence that sees it edge dangerously close to the fringes of mediocrity.
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May 5, 2014I Never Learn is an album about love, but not a record to love.
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Apr 29, 2014Heard consecutively, these songs sound disappointingly like one another, and while one good belter about the pain of unrequited love is a blessing, nine in a row turns out to be real drag.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014As a whole, though, I Never Learn wallows too much. [Jun 2014, p.119]
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May 7, 2014When I Never Learn aims for pop, it's the hazy Shangri-Las variety; the melodies are Li's lushest to date, but the smoke never clears around them.
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May 1, 2014I Never Learn works best in the smallest doses, despite its brevity, because it's as one-paced as a fading lower-division central defender, and that pace is sluggish.
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May 1, 2014“I Never Learn” is a gorgeous opener, its fulsome strum of acoustic guitars graced by strings and backing-vocal cooings in anthemic manner; but from there it’s emotional pain writ large, with wan piano lines supplanted by grand, melodramatic resolutions.
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May 5, 2014You are either in the mood for this depth of wallowing or you are not.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 137 out of 149
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Mixed: 6 out of 149
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Negative: 6 out of 149
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Jul 22, 2014
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