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All Love's Legal
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for Berlin-based Jam Rostron (formerly Janine Rostron) includes themes about gender equality and identity.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. The 405
    Feb 18, 2014
    90
    All Love's Legal is the kind of record that reaffirms your faith in the power of music.
  2. Exclaim
    Feb 7, 2014
    80
    Although the album may carry a serious and meaningful message, Rostron has enough hard-won maturity as an artist to know that vinegar only attracts flies, and All Love's Legal is a perfect marriage of thought-provoking and hip-shaking.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 14, 2014
    80
    Lyrically and musically, as remarkable an album as you'll hear all 2014. [Mar 2014, p.119]
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  4. Uncut
    Feb 3, 2014
    70
    It's an album of disco torch songs with the usual glib lyrics about good times and sexy dancers replaced by light-hearted queer/feminist sloganeering. [Mar 2014, p.82]
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  5. musicOMH.com
    Feb 12, 2014
    60
    Rostrum is probably destined to stay a cult interest for now, but if you’re looking for dance music with a pulse and a brain, then she’s guaranteed to be your new jam.
  6. The Observer (UK)
    Feb 3, 2014
    60
    With song titles such as Beyond Binary Binds, it would sound like a cultural studies dissertation, if it weren't all couched in surprisingly banging tunes such as Public Love.
  7. Pretty Much Amazing
    Feb 10, 2014
    33
    Almost nothing about it works.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. master0fn0ne
    Aug 19, 2015
    10
    An album that not only questions conventions in humanity, but also raises questions about music. It takes awhile for your brain to sync withAn album that not only questions conventions in humanity, but also raises questions about music. It takes awhile for your brain to sync with Planningtorock's, but it is worth the effort.… Expand
  2. Altrove
    Feb 23, 2014
    7
    This sounds like the kind of message that pop music has come to embrace. But rather than deliver that message in an instantly metabolizedThis sounds like the kind of message that pop music has come to embrace. But rather than deliver that message in an instantly metabolized treacle-pop ballad or an arena-ready club anthem, Rostron's music demands that you confront what abandoning deeply-entrenched ways of thinking about gender and desire would actually feel like—it doesn't sound too comfortable, and it shouldn't.… Expand
  4. jotaeseche
    Jan 15, 2015
    6
    Though I firmly admire Planningtorock's message throughout the album, and I got stuck and subsumed in her curious music, I cannot avoidThough I firmly admire Planningtorock's message throughout the album, and I got stuck and subsumed in her curious music, I cannot avoid noticing that she lacks development and depth in her lyrics and melodies. It's a valuable effort, but it has several flaws.… Expand
  5. Scooter4849
    Apr 23, 2014
    5
    This is possibly the most polarizing album i've ever listened to. Absolutely great at some parts, but totally fails in others. I also can'tThis is possibly the most polarizing album i've ever listened to. Absolutely great at some parts, but totally fails in others. I also can't help but feel this is a bit of a Shaking the Habitual ripoff.… Expand
  6. ultraviolenmilk
    Nov 9, 2014
    0
    A mund ne vetëm të gjithë pajtohemi se kjo nuk është muzikë ? Sure, ajo mund të duken të mira në letër , porekzekutimi ishte vetëm tmerrshme .A mund ne vetëm të gjithë pajtohemi se kjo nuk është muzikë ? Sure, ajo mund të duken të mira në letër , porekzekutimi ishte vetëm tmerrshme . Ajo disi do të qëndrojë i fortë duke u përpjekur të jetë unike apo diçka në atë fushë . Ju lutem Janine Rostron kthehemi në fazë përgatitore dhe të përpiqet të bëjë muzikë tolerueshme .

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