Promises
by Floating Points
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 2 out of 57
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  1. bahamat
    Mar 31, 2021
    0
    While the album does receive critical acclaim, for some people, including me, it just doesn't hit the spot.

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#35 Best Album of 2021
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#80 Most Discussed Album of 2021

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Metascore
86

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 7, 2021
    82
    Make no mistake, the payoff that Promises promises is by no means immediate. This is music to savour with eyes closed in a dark room, headphones on and all other distractions firmly yeeted from sight.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Apr 6, 2021
    80
    Eighty-year-old sax great Sanders pushes his sound to its most heavenly extreme. [Apr 2021, p.73]
  3. The Wire
    Apr 5, 2021
    70
    Promises doesn’t always come across like a true meeting of equals. Laswell used the saxophonist as a plug-in element in the late 90s, Michael Mantler’s Jazz Composer’s Orchestra did the same on 1968’s Communications, and there’s a bit of that feel here. A player with as unique and instantly recognisable a voice as Sanders always risks becoming a gimmick, but his performance here is stunningly beautiful, and the album would be unimaginable without him. [Apr 2021, p.57]
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