- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Jul 21, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017Smart, engaging lyrics are a widespread and continual theme on McKenna’s initial offering.
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Jul 21, 2017While a very strong album What Do You Think About The Car? definitely is, it’s impossible to extricate it from the songwriter himself.
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Q MagazineJul 20, 2017As twinkly-toed as debuts come. [Aug 2017, p.109]
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Jul 20, 2017To all intents and purposes McKenna is a teen breakout star, but describing him that way feels reductive after listening to his debut, on which he proves himself a serious lyricist who deserves more than to be put in a box.
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Jul 20, 2017They are protest songs, but sound anything but worthy or world-weary. Instead, they are sun-soaked aural fizz bombs which channel indie rock through his love of David Bowie and Abba.
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Jul 24, 2017In many ways, What Do You Think… is a perfectly teenage album; it’s smart and it’s naive, it’s funny and it’s bleak, and, most importantly, it understands the appeal of pop while being frustrated at the apolitical landscape in which it exists.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 131 out of 146
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Mixed: 4 out of 146
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Negative: 11 out of 146
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