In Your Dreams
by Stevie Nicks
  • Record Label: Reprise
  • Release Date: May 3, 2011
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Apr 29, 2011
    100
    In Your Dreams, Nicks' first studio album since 2001, is also streaked with the witchy-woman weirdness only she can bring.
  2. BBC Music
    Jun 17, 2011
    80
    There's still only one Stevie Nicks – witchy, mystical and romantic.
  3. NOW Magazine
    May 27, 2011
    80
    Lindsey Buckingham appears on the quiet Soldier's Angel, and he and Nicks interlock in a unique way that tells us these two, at least musically, are bound together for life.
  5. Boston Globe
    May 9, 2011
    80
    With help from producers Dave Stewart of Eurythmics - who co-wrote seven songs as well - and Glen Ballard, Nicks sings of big loves and losses and sprinkles them with her enchanted glitter of optimism, melancholy, ecstasy, and regret.
  6. AllMusic
    May 4, 2011
    80
    In Your Dreams winds up capturing the essence of Stevie Nicks, which -- as her previous three decades of solo albums prove -- is no easy feat.
  7. Rolling Stone
    May 2, 2011
    70
    The gypsy queen is in royal form on In Your Dreams - it's not just her first album in 10 years, it's her finest collection of songs since the Eighties.
  8. The Telegraph (UK)
    Jun 28, 2011
    60
    The production doesn't always give Nicks's gothic imagery enough waft, but fans will love puzzling over which of her paramours she's recalling on Secret Love.
  9. musicOMH.com
    Jun 27, 2011
    60
    Those fiercely loyal fans will be very pleased with In Your Dreams, a pit stop in her canon of rock folklore.
  10. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    Jun 27, 2011
    60
    The caprine warble of solo Steve Nicks has broken its silence after 10 years to explore the idea that nothing lasts forever, especially in affairs of the heart.
  11. The Guardian
    Jun 24, 2011
    60
    Producer Dave Stewart has helped create an album that sounds exactly like the Nicks of myth: spooky, otherworldly, emotional and sassy, yet stalked by some undefinable melancholy.
  12. Mojo
    Jun 21, 2011
    60
    Nicks co-produces with Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. [July 2011, p. 102]
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  13. Uncut
    Jun 3, 2011
    60
    There are moments where the weirdly wonderful pagan pixie princess pokes through. [Jul 2011, p.90]
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  14. No Ripcord
    May 16, 2011
    60
    Over the course of this slightly bloated track listing there is too much focus on the soft rock element of her sound and this which works to the detriment of her fascinating lyrics and bewitching theatrics.
  15. Paste Magazine
    May 3, 2011
    50
    In Your Dreams is an album about exorcising the demons of the past and moving forward toward the beauty lingering in our imaginations.
  16. Q Magazine
    Jun 20, 2011
    40
    She sounds more engaged than she has in years. Not the disgrace it could have been. [July 2011, p. 117]
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  17. The A.V. Club
    May 10, 2011
    33
    For all the juvenilia of the songwriting, the production on In Your Dreams is an oldster's abomination, lacquering dated MOR bombast over intermittently inspired melodies that wilt on impact.
  18. New Musical Express (NME)
    Jun 20, 2011
    30
    It's an album full of the sort of drippy ballads and droopy soft rock that should induce an involuntary gag reflex in anyone under the age of 45.
  19. Slant Magazine
    May 2, 2011
    30
    In Your Dreams indulges in some of Nicks's worst tendencies as a songwriter and is slathered in chintzy, dated production values.

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User Score
8.6

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. sarsea53
    May 9, 2011
    10
    This is what it's all about people! Real music, something that's very rare now. "In Your Dreams" is one album that's in a class by itself.This is what it's all about people! Real music, something that's very rare now. "In Your Dreams" is one album that's in a class by itself. Thank you Stevie, simply a masterpiece!… Full Review »
  2. Taisawards
    May 7, 2011
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Score (10.0) Asi její nejlepší album. Poslouchal jsem ho pÅ… Full Review »
  3. TabbyB
    May 6, 2011
    10
    It's amazing that 4 decades into an incredible career Stevie Nicks has released her best solo album ever. There are so many amazing songs onIt's amazing that 4 decades into an incredible career Stevie Nicks has released her best solo album ever. There are so many amazing songs on this record that it's difficult to pick a favorite, and there isn't one bad song in the bunch. "Moonlight", "Annabel Lee" and "New Orleans" approach Fleetwood Mac levels of greatness. "Secret Love" is a well-written song from the Rumours days. "For What It's Worth" sounds like a modern "Landslide". "In Your Dreams" and "Everybody Loves You" are very catchy and sound like potential singles, and "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Ghosts Are Gone" crank up the electric guitars. Nicks hasn't sang so well on an album since 1982's The Wild Heart. This album is a classic.… Full Review »
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