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Jun 4, 2014For the most part, Xscape honors [Jackson's] legacy and should help to relieve some of the mistrust that some may have with those in charge of the icon’s estate.
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May 27, 2014Jacko xscaped in a faulty pod, but now at least we’ve a worthy tribute.
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May 22, 2014It may have taken five years, but Xscape is the posthumous album that does more than reminisce about Jackson’s legacy. It honors it.
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May 15, 2014The songs are all totally enjoyable, even the schmaltzier ones like Loving You, inspiring toe-tapping and appreciation for Jackson’s phenomenal vocals.
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May 14, 2014Xscape's greatest accomplishment is that these do sound like MJ songs--for better or worse.
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May 14, 2014Considering what kind of experiment this was, it turned out pretty damn well.
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May 13, 2014Jackson's music mixed celebration and terror, as if he was unable to find, or maintain, the division between the two. His music offered a place to both explore and escape those tensions. On this album, it does again.
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May 13, 2014Even with such dark subject matter, though, it's a joy to hear the joy in Jackson's voice.
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May 12, 2014Timbaland and Reid evoke the Michael Jackson we all love and miss, finding songs that are worthy and giving them arrangements that are simultaneously nostalgic and modern. It's a difficult trick to pull off but they largely succeed, so XSCAPE is a worthy and memorable coda to Jackson's career.
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May 12, 2014There’s nothing here to quite match his finest moments, but nothing stinks and that, I suppose, is the best you can expect.
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May 9, 2014Xscape offers a chance to once again be whisked back to his creative prime and recall the man before his flaws felled him, when he was untouchable.
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May 9, 2014It has just eight short songs, and the material isn’t about to eclipse “Thriller.” But it does a service by adding worthy songs to Jackson’s canon. Even better, it makes him sound, once again, alive.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 134 out of 158
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Mixed: 8 out of 158
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Negative: 16 out of 158
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