Obviously
by Lake Street Dive
  • Record Label: Nonesuch
  • Release Date: Mar 12, 2021
User Score
5.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
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  1. salnallig
    Oct 18, 2021
    0
    "Obviously" is Lake Street Dive's best album since "Bad Self Portraits" (but they hav e yet to produce a bad album. The American Songwriter critic who related their songs to Steel Dan without the snarky humor seems to miss the self-deprecating (self-snarky?) humor that the band's best songs have. Their overall sound is tight and loose at the same time, with one of the great singers in"Obviously" is Lake Street Dive's best album since "Bad Self Portraits" (but they hav e yet to produce a bad album. The American Songwriter critic who related their songs to Steel Dan without the snarky humor seems to miss the self-deprecating (self-snarky?) humor that the band's best songs have. Their overall sound is tight and loose at the same time, with one of the great singers in today's pop scene. Why they aren't bigger than 99% of the schlock music that I hear on the radio is surprising to me.… Expand

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. American Songwriter
    Mar 30, 2021
    70
    Think Steely Dan minus Becker and Fagen’s wry, occasionally sneering lyrics, and you’re getting warm to Lake Street Dive’s approach.
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  2. Glide Magazine
    Mar 23, 2021
    80
    Spread over nearly a dozen tracks, the band leans more into classic funk and jazz this time around, while carrying over their other influences for one of their finest records yet.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Mar 12, 2021
    70
    In keeping with the New England Conservatory alums’ track record, its peaks are so high and so satisfying (and come frequently enough) that the band isn’t sunk by the competent if uninspired jazzy lounge-funk that it falls back on when it runs out of ideas for its songs for grown-ups raised on thinking-person’s pop music from the ’70s, ’80s and beyond.
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