Sugar Ray
by Sugar Ray
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Billboard
    90
    There isn't a dud among this project's 11 tracks, each of which sounds custom-made for radio.
  2. Q Magazine
    80
    As radio-friendly as Radiohead are not. [Sep 2001, p.120]
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  3. Sonicnet
    80
    Sugar Ray actually sound like a band -- a quality missing from most of their earlier work.
  5. Rolling Stone
    70
    Although it's getting a trifle elderly to hear "Fly" endlessly reconfigured like the Rubik's Cube it turned out to be, that song is all over Sugar Ray...
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    67
    It's essentially more of the same.
  7. E! Online
    67
    And while it might be difficult to swallow yet another dose of hip-hop-lite and poor-me acoustic pop songs from chick-magnet lead singer Mark McGrath and gang, these Southern California boys make the everyman breeziness work for them.

Awards & Rankings

76
#76 Most Shared Album of 2001

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User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. brubruzinha
    Nov 25, 2021
    10
    An incredibly good album by Sugar Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  2. DieterG.
    Jul 30, 2001
    9
    My favourite of the Sugar Ray albums, it's a smooth, polished sound, full of drum and bass, mixed with the original Sugar Ray energy. An My favourite of the Sugar Ray albums, it's a smooth, polished sound, full of drum and bass, mixed with the original Sugar Ray energy. An excellent pop record, even if not a classic… Full Review »
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