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Mar 2, 2017Tears in the Club acts as yet another testament to Kingdom’s skill as an innovative musician; many try to fuse inspirations from numerous styles, eras and artists, but few do it quite so effortlessly.
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The WireJun 2, 2017Kingdom's debut album is all pop. Not in the formulaic sense, but in its sophisticated amalgam of everything that is skilled and aesthetic from both mainstream club production and underground dance subgenre. [Mar 2017, p.49]
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Feb 27, 2017They’re futuristic, sophisticated, catchy, and psychedelically wrought. However, they’re also deeply depressive.
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Mar 31, 2017The tracks without vocal turns are left feeling slightly lacking, but the killer outweighs the filler.
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Mar 10, 2017For his part, Kingdom continues his exploration of experimental R&B.
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Feb 27, 2017Tears in the Club is a disappointingly genteel work, from an artist known for anything but.
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Mar 20, 2017Ultimately, Tears In The Club could have been a nearly flawless six-track EP--though the filler doesn't detract from the more noteworthy tunes on here, it doesn't really contribute either.
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Apr 11, 2017The bad news is that Tears isn’t as gripping as Kingdom’s earlier work (notably 2013’s Vertical XL). Tears sacrifices the ping-pong polyrhythmic beats that made his earlier material so compelling and replaces it with something simpler.
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Feb 27, 2017The most arresting moments on Tears in the Club come when he is working with singers. ... The rest of Tears in the Club is instrumental, aside from the snatches of sampled vocals that Kingdom has long favored in his tracks, and the mix of formats renders the album a somewhat inconsistent listen.
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Feb 27, 2017Overall, Tears in the Club may aim for the melancholy, but it's also pretty enough to please those in search of a lush, soothing escape.