No Shape
by Perfume Genius
  • Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: May 5, 2017
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 159 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 142 out of 159
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 159
  3. Negative: 12 out of 159
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  1. Tom_Bombadil
    May 11, 2017
    6
    He's a cute guy, of course, and he seems to be interested in creating songs with some sonic ambition, so I'm baffled to find out he's at his best when he's just making regular pop songs. Perfume Genius is good whenever he keeps it simple. There's a sense of dilutedness in here; There're many tracks that go absolutely nowhere, specially on the second half.

    About as good as his last one,    He's a cute guy, of course, and he seems to be interested in creating songs with some sonic ambition, so I'm baffled to find out he's at his best when he's just making regular pop songs. Perfume Genius is good whenever he keeps it simple. There's a sense of dilutedness in here; There're many tracks that go absolutely nowhere, specially on the second half.

    About as good as his last one, just a tad longer.    … Expand

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Magnet
    Jun 28, 2017
    70
    Despite lyrics contending with crippling anxiety, suicide and relationship strife, what ultimately emerges in a celebration of the defiant act of loving and living fully in the face of a world gone mad. [No. 143, p.59]
  2. The Quietus
    May 31, 2017
    80
    Perhaps his most assured and confident album.
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  3. Tiny Mix Tapes
    May 19, 2017
    80
    These pop-forward moments are frontloaded on No Shape, extravagant and baroque. The soaring production value is not accompanied by conceptual upending or reinvention, but rather extends into a grand sort of sequel vision of Perfume Genius.
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