Overgrown
by James Blake
  • Record Label: Polydor
  • Release Date: Apr 9, 2013
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8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 187 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 178 out of 187
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 187
  3. Negative: 3 out of 187
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#67 Most Discussed Album of 2013
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Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 40
  3. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. Delusions of Adequacy
    Jul 29, 2013
    90
    Overgrown continues to build on a fantastic reputation: one that much like his music is aided by layer and layer of calculated additions that all together showcases one of music’s most gifted composers.
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  2. Magnet
    May 10, 2013
    80
    Overgrown is a fuller, more heated album than its predecessor, denser and more tender. [No. 98, p.52]
  3. The Quietus
    Apr 30, 2013
    50
    Blake may have dispensed with some of the more experimental and emotionally obtuse trappings of his debut album on Overgrown in an attempt to engage more directly with a wider audience, but his intentions are all but drowned out by a thick glass porthole being hammered on feverishly by a dozen drowning onlookers.
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