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It's too club-centric, too fashion-obsessed, too willfully weird to be a No Doubt album... a glitzy, wild ride that's stranger and often more entertaining than nearly any other mainstream pop album of 2004.
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Style trumps substance in Stefani's world, making "Love, Angel, Music, Baby" an ideal guilty pleasure.
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BlenderAn only sometime thing. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.112]
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Welcome to the hottest, coolest, best-dressed pop album of the year.
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It is pure fluff. And pretty awful fluff at that.
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This is undoubtedly the best excuse for a solo outing since Justin Timberlake's Justified.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe ostentatiousness of it all grows irritating. [3 Dec 2004, p.83]
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An exercise in pointless artifice. [23 Nov 2004]
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Love. Angel. Music. Baby. has been acclaimed as a bright-and-shiny pop-music tour-de-force, but once the initial thrilling rush of the stylistic sheen and artistic conception has abated, the album seems too fragmented to be anointed as such.
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New Musical Express (NME)One of the most frivolously brilliant slabs of shiny retro-pop anyone's had the chutzpah to release all year. [20 Nov 2004, p.56]
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LAMB has one mega-hit, one okay song, three stillborns, and seven full-fledged embarrassments.
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An ultra sleek and, it has to be said, generally impressive, 80s-inspired party record.
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Love.Angel.Music.Baby. is big, brash, and divisive -- but as such it deserves to be heard and re-heard.
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Q MagazineA ferocious declaration of independence. [Jan 2005, p.124]
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It's an irresistible party: trashy, hedonistic and deeply weird.
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The fascinating thing about Gwen Stefani’s record is not how different it sounds from No Doubt, but how similar it sounds to the producers that she works with and how their collaborations usually fall flat because of the rehashing of tired ideas and plodding predictability of her arrangements.
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A few songs sound tossed-off, but a few of the stranger ones work.
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Only a pair of beefy co-writes with rock mauler Linda Perry detract from the overall tingliness.
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A clever and sometimes enticing solo debut that doesn't quite add up. [22 Nov 2004]
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The subject matter on the indistinguishably titled Love, Angel, Music, Baby is painfully mainstream throughout.
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UncutWhen LAMB is good, it's very good indeed.... It's one of the most audacioius pop albums of the year. [Jan 2005, p.120]
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And while LAMB is adventurous and playful--with nary a ska-punk riddim to be found--it's when Gwen reaches back and goes totally '80s that the CD reverberates with unwavering charm.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 211 out of 245
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Mixed: 16 out of 245
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Negative: 18 out of 245
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Nov 7, 2012This Album Is One Of The Most Creative Albums I Have Ever Heard! Love Her Voice! Best Debut Album Of 2004!
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Apr 7, 2021
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Dec 2, 2020Definitely her best album, a masterpiece. I hope to hear something like that coming from her again!!!!!!!!