The Afterlove
by James Blunt
  • Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Mar 24, 2017
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Q Magazine
    Mar 27, 2017
    40
    It struggles to hold attention because even Blunt's poppiest songs start the same way as his ballads: a downbeat vocal about ghosting, love or how Twitter hates him. [May 2017, p.100]
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  2. The Guardian
    Mar 27, 2017
    40
    While the lyrics may be banal and inoffensive--bar a few moments of pause-and-rewind strangeness including references to “modern friends” and “beautiful” mothers (not his)--the music is actively risible, with Blunt having adopted a watered-down version of Justin Bieber’s asinine tropical house.
  3. The Observer (UK)
    Mar 27, 2017
    40
    A chart-friendly tropical dance-pop production boosts Ibiza resident Blunt’s querulous, tremulous balladry with a fresh Chris De Burgh-hits-Cafe Del Mar energy on Paradise, Bartender and California, but it’s bland business as usual on soppy numbers such as Make Me Better (co-written with Ed Sheeran) and Time of Our Lives.

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