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Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. Mar 20, 2012
    80
    Ultimately The Promise doesn't point toward the future, but it does deliver fulfillment abundantly, from the place things really are, showcasing a confident, relevant, singer and songwriter.
  2. Mar 20, 2012
    70
    With a sympathetic producer in Don Was, who worked with Ryder in the 1990s with his own Motor City band Was (Not Was), Ryder is able to make a late-career statement that stands tall alongside anything he's ever done.
  3. Mar 20, 2012
    77
    It's not a masterpiece or a groundbreaking new direction musically, just an hour of mostly solid rock 'n' roll.
  4. Uncut
    Mar 20, 2012
    80
    Mitch Ryder here astutely merges heartbreaking social realism with accomplished, funky Motown/James Brown grooves. [Mar 2012, p.97]

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