• Record Label: Capitol
  • Release Date: Oct 13, 2023
Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. 100
    It’s an album that fully appreciates that life’s highs and lows are hopelessly intertwined, which only makes them more beguiling. And above all, it’s a strikingly vital pop album charged with love, lust, sweat and regret. You won’t need a bosh of poppers to feel thoroughly intoxicated.
  2. Oct 31, 2023
    90
    Something to Give Each Other succeeds because Sivan has been freed: to be who he wants to be and express that through his most engaging and addictive album to date.
  3. Oct 26, 2023
    90
    The upshot is an album that is one of the year’s most significant and polished pop performances. There’s not a wasted moment on Something To Give Each Other.
  4. Oct 13, 2023
    90
    It’s as fun and messy as it is timelessly trendy; as silly as it is erotic.
  5. Oct 12, 2023
    90
    An uplifting album with a distant and ever present sadness culminates on a high note, and then right before you know it, you’ll start it all over again.
  6. Oct 23, 2023
    85
    He’s at his most realized and forthcoming: a pop singer with something to say, one who does so frankly with a self-assurance that only comes with age.
  7. Oct 16, 2023
    80
    Whether he’s falling in or out of love, going out, or reflecting on the night before, Sivan sounds more credible than ever, pairing a newfound swagger with a heady rush of emotion.
  8. Oct 16, 2023
    80
    Multi-layered and deeply personal, Something is Sivan’s most adventurous album in more ways than one. Musically, the singer stretches out to explore new instrumentation — and ornamentation. .... Lyrically, Sivan manages to be earnest and self-aware, without descending into bitterness or self-loathing.
  9. 80
    Something To Give Each Other isn’t changing the game or reinventing the musical wheel, but ask yourself: does it need to? It’s exactly what it needs to be, and it's done so incredibly well.
  10. Oct 12, 2023
    80
    This is one of the year’s best and most distinctive pop albums, and it’s to Sivan’s credit that even as the genre speeds up around him, he’s keeping pace while making sure to feel the breeze rush by.
  11. Oct 13, 2023
    79
    This lush, lustful record contains some of Sivan’s most adventurous work to date, with its global influences and club-ready beats vividly evoking the catharsis of being in touch with yourself and your community.
  12. Oct 12, 2023
    70
    What Something to Give Each Other lacks in poignancy, though, is made up for by the joy with which it embraces queer pleasure.
  13. Oct 18, 2023
    50
    Troye Sivan’s Something to Give Each Other offers pop music enthusiasts a much-needed reprieve from the more emo offerings of Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish. But the record falls short of its own standards, set high by the success of its predecessor and lost in its own ecstasy and provocative imagination.

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