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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. 85
    It’s a challenge and a pleasure; a banger and a crooner; a lover and a leaver, and easily the best album of TEEN’s career.
  2. Mar 4, 2019
    80
    While TEEN have covered all of this ground before, this is some of their most cohesive and satisfying music. As its title implies, Good Fruit is the result of thriving after hardship, and its sense of accomplishment is especially sweet.
  3. Mar 7, 2019
    75
    Good Fruit is an album that wears its emotions on its sleeve, but never overplays them. Far from insistent, it’s perfectly pleased to offer just what you need, and nothing more. Take from it what you will.
  4. Feb 28, 2019
    70
    With Good Fruit, TEEN promise to deliver pop bangers while still weaving nuance into the old breakup story. And for the most part, the Lieberson sisters succeed; from the residual longing in "Radar," to the jaded epiphany of "Pretend," we get to see the many phases of a bright mind in flux.
  5. 60
    This is the band’s first self-produced album, and it’s stronger on detail than as a unified structure or statement. But there are plenty of ripe pickings, revealing a new depth to Teen, and intriguing potential for the future.
  6. Feb 28, 2019
    60
    TEEN’s sonic approach is chaotically diverse throughout and this very much feels like an album of two halves; when it captures the alienation and isolation it strives for, though, it soars.
  7. Q Magazine
    Feb 28, 2019
    60
    They don't make quite such a startling leap forward on this third effort [as on 2016's Love Yes], but tweak it by reworking their sound with electronic experiments. [Apr 2019, p.116]
  8. Feb 28, 2019
    60
    The crystalline vocals and dazzling harmonies that TEEN have become known for are replete throughout, and ultimately there are more great than good songs, with the best coming in the latter half of the record.

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