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  • Summary: The English rockers release their seventh studio album of a 15-year career spanning genres, from rock to country to blues.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Q Magazine
    Jun 8, 2011
    80
    May not be their most ambitious album, but it's one of their finest. [July 2011, p. 113]
  2. Jun 20, 2011
    74
    Gomez finally makes peace with the fact that it's a pop band that loves to jam and a jam band that loves to write pop songs.
  3. Jun 22, 2011
    73
    The music in their latest release, Whatever's On Your Mind, stays on a pop path that's decorated with tinges of folk, blues, electronic, and whatever else they feel like throwing in.
  4. Jun 13, 2011
    60
    The title of Gomez's seventh studio album reflects the low-key, easy-flowing attitude these boyish Brits have maintained since winning the U.K.'s coveted Mercury Prize with their 1998 debut.
  5. Mojo
    Jun 21, 2011
    60
    Specialists in Transatlantica hone their songcraft. [July 2011, p. 100]
  6. Jun 17, 2011
    60
    The five-strong troupe play fast and loose with the same elements that have served them so well across the last decade.
  7. Jun 23, 2011
    20
    There's a difference between appealing to a broad audience and pandering to one, and that difference is having some sense of artistic soul. This has neither.

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  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jun 24, 2011
    9
    Ignore the negative reviews. This is a fine album. Perhaps not the deepest or most high minded, but many critics don't have the properIgnore the negative reviews. This is a fine album. Perhaps not the deepest or most high minded, but many critics don't have the proper appreciation for how difficult it is to make a catchy pop song that holds up over time. Fortunately for us, Gomez is very good at it. Expand