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Gwen Stefani
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Mar 18, 2016
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Mar 16, 2016She wears her girlishness on her own terms, and here it feels truer--and sounds stronger--than it has in years.
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Mar 17, 2016Divorcing the music from its maker and inspirations can pose varying degrees of difficulty. But listeners who can imprint themselves on these songs will find much to enjoy in Stefani’s Truth.
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Mar 16, 2016If these Top 40 fixtures make the album feel in keeping with current radio pop, they don't crowd Stefani with unnecessary bells and whistles. Her singing--and, more important, what her singing is saying--is always front and center, which gives the music an intimate quality even at its most polished.
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Mar 17, 2016It’s easy to chastise aging pop stars for chasing trends or trying to recapture past glories, but those efforts here are thrown into sharp relief by the maturity of the album’s first half.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 148 out of 188
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Mixed: 18 out of 188
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Negative: 22 out of 188
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