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69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
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  1. Feb 18, 2014
    90
    All Love's Legal is the kind of record that reaffirms your faith in the power of music.
  2. Feb 20, 2014
    80
    Gendered pronouns do not appear on the album, thus the record feels distant, as if Rostron is isolated from the listener, a tactic that makes the album intriguingly impersonal yet universal.
  3. Q Magazine
    Feb 14, 2014
    80
    Lyrically and musically, as remarkable an album as you'll hear all 2014. [Mar 2014, p.119]
  4. Feb 11, 2014
    80
    It has hooks galore, but embedded in brilliantly strange music.
  5. 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.
  6. Feb 3, 2014
    80
    It’s a fun record, and as adventurous as we’ve come to expect from Planningtorock.
  7. Feb 3, 2014
    80
    With no twee gimmicks, vibrant colour and bold substance are present in spades, resulting in an album that’s nothing short of a masterclass in left-of-centre dance music.
  8. Feb 14, 2014
    75
    There's an organic, humanistic ethos operating behind her music: we are all people, and we're all moved by the same primal passions and stimuli.
  9. 70
    It deceptively makes you think there’s not much happening here but is in fact a highly complex thing that needs care and attention, only then do you realize we have been offered Rostron’s heart on a plate.
  10. 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]
User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 21
  2. Negative: 5 out of 21
  1. 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. Full Review »
  2. 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. Full Review »
  3. 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. Full Review »