The Album
by Teyana Taylor
  • Record Label: Def Jam
  • Release Date: Jun 19, 2020
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 27
  3. Negative: 3 out of 27
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  1. matthewmirliani
    Jun 22, 2020
    10
    A cohesive and sprawling landscape of R&B perfection, this masterwork features beautiful production, beautiful vocals, and a successful balance of warm intimacy and sophistication. It builds on her 2018 album from Kanye’s Wyoming Sessions, and takes these sounds to the next level. “Wake Up Love” and “Morning” are highlights, but with an album so well-put together, finding a highlight is aA cohesive and sprawling landscape of R&B perfection, this masterwork features beautiful production, beautiful vocals, and a successful balance of warm intimacy and sophistication. It builds on her 2018 album from Kanye’s Wyoming Sessions, and takes these sounds to the next level. “Wake Up Love” and “Morning” are highlights, but with an album so well-put together, finding a highlight is a challenge; all of it is a highlight. Should be in the Album of the Year mix when GRAMMY nominations are announced.… Expand
  2. acecyan
    Jun 22, 2020
    9
    All the songs were very good. The only problem was the album was sooo long.
  3. jeffer21
    Jun 23, 2020
    6
    The Album lacks the excess of short tracks with great potential and some long feats but still teyana shows more of its versatility and melodic vocals !!
  4. eueduardo23
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
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  5. CriticoP3
    Jun 27, 2020
    7
    La pupilo de Kanye West deja de lado a su mentor para enfocarse con más libertad en un trabajo más personal. The Album, que cuenta con 23 canciones, es una muestra radiante de producción pero falta lamentable de cohesión. Algunas canciones no terminan en ningún lado y quedan opacadas y suenan vacías. Pero las que logran resaltar hacen más llevadero el ritmo en conjunto. Miss Taylor nosLa pupilo de Kanye West deja de lado a su mentor para enfocarse con más libertad en un trabajo más personal. The Album, que cuenta con 23 canciones, es una muestra radiante de producción pero falta lamentable de cohesión. Algunas canciones no terminan en ningún lado y quedan opacadas y suenan vacías. Pero las que logran resaltar hacen más llevadero el ritmo en conjunto. Miss Taylor nos transporta directamente a los 90 mientras juega a sumergirse en sonidos y beats más contemporáneos con sutileza y glamur con sus bien trabajadas melodías. Con liricas algo rebuscadas pero que no dejan ser frescas y fascinantes aunque algo desequilibradas en general.

    Favs: Bad, How You Want It, Contrete, Still, We Got Love, Stil

    Malas: Bear WIth Me,

    Puntaje: 67/100

    -CriticoP3 para Metacritic.    … Expand
  6. caoluz
    Jun 24, 2020
    6
    At first, it is very long. There are such a lot of interpolations, a lot of short tracks and it seems to be interesting only from the middle forward.
  7. jademorais
    Jul 24, 2020
    6
    Good R&B, but basic. On her EP KTSE, we had an honest experience in 'Rose In Harlem', with a dark melody and honest lyrics, that let you longing for more, and wanting to know more about this singer but that's not what you'll find in this album. You go looking for Kanye's beats, and Grace Jones's eccentricity, like suggests the cover, but it's inconsistent, being a longer album, with anGood R&B, but basic. On her EP KTSE, we had an honest experience in 'Rose In Harlem', with a dark melody and honest lyrics, that let you longing for more, and wanting to know more about this singer but that's not what you'll find in this album. You go looking for Kanye's beats, and Grace Jones's eccentricity, like suggests the cover, but it's inconsistent, being a longer album, with an excess of short tracks… Expand

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. AllMusic
    Jun 26, 2020
    80
    None eclipse "Request" off VII, but the Kehlani collaboration "Morning" is a seductive delight, while the snaking (and accurately titled) "Boomin" is a treat for lovers of late-'90s R&B with explicit references to Blaque and much of the Swing Mob (plus an appearance from the latter's Missy Elliott). Confident diversions into breezy Afro-pop and underwater dancehall lead to a half-hour stretch covering various romantic woes.
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  2. Pitchfork
    Jun 23, 2020
    73
    It sags in the fourth section, where Taylor perhaps overcompensates for the brevity of K.T.S.E. with one too many ballads. Still, for an album that lives mostly in the slow- and mid-tempo, it frisks and frolics.
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  3. Rolling Stone
    Jun 22, 2020
    60
    Teyana Taylor is a good singer, capable of shifting between a soft lilt on “Lowkey” and a strident punch on “We Got Love.” But she tends to sound like others, particularly Brandy. She hasn’t quite absorbed her influences into a vocal presence all her own.
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