Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
The Block - New Kids on the Block
The Block Image
Metascore
51 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
Rate this:
  • Summary: Fourteen years since their last studio record, the Kids are back with their newest album on the Interscope label.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Los Angeles Times
    100
    Believe it or not, though, they've got the right stuff.
  2. NOW Magazine
    60
    Surprisingly, it's a light and catchy bunch of convincing hip-hop- and R&B-influenced Timberlake-esque club pop.
  3. All Music Guide
    30
    The problem facing New Kids on the Block on their 2008 reunion The Block is the same one they had on their last album, 1994's "Face the Music": the quintet are no longer kids and don't quite know how to be adults.

See all 12 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 33
  3. Negative: 3 out of 33
  1. [Anonymous]
    10
    This truly is a great album! A tremendous show of how they have matured and their music has as well. It's one great song after another. I have tricked my husband & friends by making them hear the songs before telling them who it's performed by and every one of them loved what they heard!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. Jerome
    5
    The 100 rating by the LA Times guy is legit. He gave it 4/4 stars. That being said, he's definitely a shill or trying to earn ironic cred.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SeanP.
    2
    Believe it or not, the LA Times really is a crappy newspaper. I mean it. I used to read it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

See all 33 User Reviews

Current Music Releases

Full List »
  1. Loveless [Reissue] - My Bloody Valentine
    Metascore: 96
  2. Ram [Deluxe Edition] - Paul & Linda McCartney
    Metascore: 93
  3. L.A. Woman - The Doors
    Metascore: 93
  4. On the Impossible Past - The Menzingers
    Metascore: 93
  5. Biokinetics [Reissue] - Porter Ricks
    Metascore: 93
  6. Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
    Metascore: 91
  7. Reform Club - Claro Intelecto
    Metascore: 89
  8. Be Good - Gregory Porter
    Metascore: 89
  9. Crown and Treaty - Sweet Billy Pilgrim
    Metascore: 88
  10. 1992-2012 - Underworld
    Metascore: 88
  11. Undun - The Roots
    Metascore: 88
  12. Accelerando - Vijay Iyer Trio
    Metascore: 87
  13. R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
    Metascore: 87
  14. Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
    Metascore: 87
  15. The Earn - Yu
    Metascore: 86
  16. Europe - Allo Darlin'
    Metascore: 86
  17. Young Man In America - Anais Mitchell
    Metascore: 86
  18. Vee Vee [Remastered] - Archers of Loaf
    Metascore: 86
  19. Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions - Billy Bragg/Wilco
    Metascore: 86
  20. Locked Down - Dr. John
    Metascore: 86
All Current Music »