• Record Label: Anti-
  • Release Date: Sep 9, 2016
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Sep 9, 2016
    81
    For the most part, the music gives the illusion of being something sourceless, something created without effort--not product, but pure being; not labor, but freedom.
  2. Mojo
    Sep 9, 2016
    80
    A series of richly textured, ambient instrumentals from pedal steel guitar. [Oct 2016, p.92]
  3. Sep 9, 2016
    80
    Goodbye to Language is a powerful, intoxicating album and one of Lanois' best works in at least a decade.
  4. Sep 16, 2016
    70
    The listener either needs to 1) absorb the unifying mood in its entirety or 2) keep an ear out for isolated moments of transcendent yet touch-and-go beauty. Fortunately for the headphone listeners out there, Goodbye to Language has an abundance of both.

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