Kris Allen
- Kris Allen
- Band Name: Kris Allen
- Record Label: Jive
- Release Date: Nov 17, 2009
- Summary: This is the first major label album for the winner of the eighth season of American Idol.
- Record Label: Jive
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 8
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Mixed: 6 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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Despite scoring writing credits on an impressive nine of these 13 tracks, Allen gets himself stylistically lost somewhere between Fly White Guy Avenue ('Can't Stay Away') and Bleeding Heart Boulevard ('The Truth'), while rarely visiting original territory.
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Unhip it may be by design, but at least Kris Allen delivers the goods: it's tuneful and likeable, melodic enough to merit a close listen.
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Most of the material, though, tends toward a flavorless pop-rock sound that doesn't even do much to flatter Allen's appealingly rumpled vocals.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 7 out of 18
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JK10
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LM5I like Kris Allen but he just swimming in bland music on this album. Acoustic Heartless would have been better than the poppy version on this album.
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KarenD2I've really tried to like this album, but it all sounds the same to me.
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