Raw Honey
by Drugdealer
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

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  1. BarnPack
    Apr 22, 2019
    8
    An album of consistently strong 60s/70s inspired tunes, Drugdealer has made an album that flows just as you'd want it to whilst demanding enough attention to keep you excited and interested.

    Instantly likeable, undoubtedly great, and completely inoffensive makes this album a solid eight out of ten.

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The Wire
    Jun 20, 2019
    80
    Sounds as if it could have been recorded in the city 50 years ago with a hotshot producer like Bones Howe or Curt Boettcher at the helm. ... “If You Don’t Know Now, You Never Will” might be the best example of this delicate balance, with the track “Fools” being the second; even though that song sometimes leans into mid-1970s schlock territory best left to Boz Scaggs or Andrew Gold. [Jun 2019, p.65]
  2. Under The Radar
    May 28, 2019
    70
    Collins pulls no punches on Raw Honey, delivering a remarkably refreshing take on bubbling soft rock, a gentle, meandering slice of summer time.
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  3. Dusted Magazine
    Apr 24, 2019
    80
    What unites the songs, if anything, is a breezy insouciance that belies careful construction. You get the sense that, like Yeats’ women, this is an album that must “labor to be beautiful.” It hides the work very well behind a sunny façade, but you don’t get movie-perfect string swells and luminous vintage keyboard lines and cheerful blurts of all-hands brass without a certain amount of forethought. Consider Collins the impresario, taking what his collaborators give him and polishing it to a high gloss.
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