Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Apr 14, 2015At 16, Mendes isn’t the artist he’ll be at 25, but he’s made a persuasive start--the adult-pop big league could yet be his.
-
Apr 14, 2015The studio sound erased many of those aural pimples, acting like dermabrasion for the ears. The appeal of the songs also helps smooth things over. Adults may notice that this “singer-songwriter” rarely writes without armies of collaborators. But the material he’s been handed has hooks.
-
Apr 14, 2015Mendes has more rhythm than you'd expect.
-
Apr 14, 2015It's a promising teen's first album, and it will satisfy the longings of the keepers of fan Tumblrs. So far, though, Mendes' music is not nearly as inventive as his strategies to publicize it.
-
Apr 20, 2015Cute he may be, but he has charisma that lasts no longer than a GIF, as Handwritten makes painfully clear.
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 159 out of 246
-
Mixed: 18 out of 246
-
Negative: 69 out of 246
-
Apr 15, 2015
-
Apr 15, 2015
-
Apr 16, 2015