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Love The Future - Chester French
Metascore
59 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 3 out of 11
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    But given the infectiously goofy tunes on Love the Future--the Beastie Boys covering the Beach Boys?--it might not be long till Wallach's girl trouble is real.
  2. Vibe
    80
    Chester French have deftly balanced the thrills of newness with the reliability of the old--not bad a for a couple of graduates.
  3. Boston Globe
    80
    Could this really be Chester French's first album? Love the Future sounds too wise--and too catchy--to possibly be the debut from recent Harvard grads D.A. Wallach and Max Drummey
  4. Spin
    70
    Their major-label debut gets by on smarmy-smooth suburban- pop melodies, cheeky genre mash-ups, and good bad jokes.
  5. All Music Guide
    60
    Too intelligent and well-crafted to dismiss but too disjointed and self-indulgent to really embrace, Love the Future is equally frustrating and promising.
  6. Rolling Stone
    60
    The end result isn't quite as lovable as they'd like.
  7. PopMatters
    60
    Though a few of the songs on Love the Future fail to capture the spark of their early successes, overall it's a fairly impressive introductory statement.
  8. musicOMH.com
    40
    The band's way with a catchy hook and a summery, laid back vibe may yet see them overtake Maroon 5, but that's where their lofty thoughts should settle for now.
  9. New Musical Express (NME)
    30
    Though there's a lot to dislike, there's also the bones of something interesting here. If only they'd stuck with making more numbers like the enticing Adam Green-ish gypsy pop of 'Neal', they might just have won us over.
  10. Prefix Magazine
    30
    None of the band's stylistic flourishes are pulled off well enough to convince you they could do one style effectively, nonetheless the 10 they try out here.
  11. Blender
    20
    Their full-length debut--anchored by sunny '60s-style pop festooned with strings and heavy-handed synths--also includes a Portugese track, a classical-music interlude and (enough already!) a tap-dance routine.
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