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Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 19 Ratings

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  • Summary: Never one for original album titles, Seal returns with just his fourth LP in his 12+ year recording career. Trevor Horn produces.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Blender
    80
    Seal remains one of the best half-dozen male pop singers drawing breath. [Sep 2003, p.129]
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  2. Launch.com
    60
    Horn's work is so effective that it takes several listens before you notice how often Seal's songwriting depends on it.
  3. Q Magazine
    30
    Most of it already sounds a decade old. [Dec 2003, p.137]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Sroop
    10
    He is beyond music of this age.
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  2. FSharpe
    10
    Greatest CD from Seal i've heard
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  3. SeanL
    5
    His first three were made with love. Seal IV was kicked forward with an urgency for money. The poet is lost (somewhere)...
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