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Universal acclaim- based on 88 Ratings
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Positive: 76 out of 88
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Mixed: 4 out of 88
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Negative: 8 out of 88
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Aug 24, 2022Sounding as pristine as usual tough love is a half effort follow up to the outstanding Devotion.
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Apr 16, 2015tough love só confirma que a jessie ware é uma das melhores cantoras inglesas atualmente. um album soul simples e coeso que segue a linha do debut Devotion (2012) sem ser repetitivo
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Jan 19, 2015While her debut album Devotion proved an excellent beginning, full of giant choruses and mixtures of genres, Tough Love subsumes completely into them and builds a tremendous, celestial and astonishingly ethereal package of songs, one stepping into the other, forming an enormous pyramid [if only Kind Of... Sometimes... Maybe didn't exist]. This album is precious.
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Dec 3, 2014as perfect a cd as a musician could want. thank you jon caramanica of nyt for your review of her live which got me to listen. i am now convinced she should see the celebrity adele did. too bad other talented artists today choose to waste their talents with the songs they record instead of following this path. this is a set of songs one can feel and sing and share joy with.
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Oct 24, 2014To sum it all up, simply beautiful and truly elegant. The only gripes that i have so far is that some (a tiny number) of the tracks featured is average at best, but the main stars like "Say You Love Me", "Want Your Feeling" and the titular song "Tough Love" more than make up for its imperfection.
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Oct 21, 2014Ms. Ware once again proves that having poise, taste and talent will win out over cheap shock tactics. Working with a number of different songwriters has diversified her sound ever so slightly. She is more confident and even seductive her. A highly polished, enjoyable sophomore effort.
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Oct 21, 2014It's been a while we have not heard a such good soul album like Tough Love. It makes me think about the last album of Drake; Nothing was the Same. Surely, this album a tough work for Jessie Ware. Because the sounds is completely different like music now days. Moreover, Jessie have a perfect vocal on this album. Great Album!!! One of the Best for this Year
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Oct 21, 2014
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Oct 21, 2014With amazing lyrics, produtions and vocals, Jessie Ware did the best Pop album of the year. She is so creative and is really awesome. I really fell in love with it and I'm addicted.
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Oct 21, 2014
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Oct 21, 2014Amazing vocals, amazing production and a great progression from the Devotion. I am a big fan of artists like Jessie. My favorite song is Keep on Lying
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Nov 10, 2014What we find with Tough Love is an album just as conceptually focused as Devotion, yet too willing to waste Ware’s sophisticated emotionality on tracks with no depth or purpose to them.
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MojoNov 6, 2014Gorgeous minimalist songs are punctuated by Prince-like synths and Ware's impressive vocal range. [Nov 2014, p.102]
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Entertainment WeeklyOct 29, 2014Pensive, silken R&B. [24 Oct 2014, p.63]