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  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the Los Angeles-based electronic features guest appearances from Najee Daniels, Shacar, Syd, and SZA.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
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  1. Mar 2, 2017
    85
    Tears in the Club acts as yet another testament to Kingdom’s skill as an innovative musician; many try to fuse inspirations from numerous styles, eras and artists, but few do it quite so effortlessly.
  2. Feb 27, 2017
    80
    They’re futuristic, sophisticated, catchy, and psychedelically wrought. However, they’re also deeply depressive.
  3. The Wire
    Jun 2, 2017
    80
    Kingdom's debut album is all pop. Not in the formulaic sense, but in its sophisticated amalgam of everything that is skilled and aesthetic from both mainstream club production and underground dance subgenre. [Mar 2017, p.49]
  4. Feb 27, 2017
    67
    Tears in the Club is a disappointingly genteel work, from an artist known for anything but.
  5. Mar 20, 2017
    66
    Ultimately, Tears In The Club could have been a nearly flawless six-track EP--though the filler doesn't detract from the more noteworthy tunes on here, it doesn't really contribute either.
  6. Feb 27, 2017
    60
    Overall, Tears in the Club may aim for the melancholy, but it's also pretty enough to please those in search of a lush, soothing escape.
  7. Apr 11, 2017
    60
    The bad news is that Tears isn’t as gripping as Kingdom’s earlier work (notably 2013’s Vertical XL). Tears sacrifices the ping-pong polyrhythmic beats that made his earlier material so compelling and replaces it with something simpler.

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