• Record Label: N/A
  • Release Date: Mar 30, 2018
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63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Mar 29, 2018
    90
    Nash hasn't just tried to continue her legacy as one of the UK's most iconic, honest and innovative pop sensations… she has completely rewritten it.
  2. Apr 4, 2018
    80
    Yesterday Was Forever provides plenty of evidence that she can still hit top form when she wants to.
  3. Mar 30, 2018
    80
    The startling openness with which Kate writes is nothing but warming.
  4. 75
    At its best the record is a playful, pulse-raising thrill-ride; and you can see that musical dexterity on display here will be staggeringly impressive or bewilderingly inconsistent, depending on your taste. I guess Yesterday Was Forever, but tomorrow is where we’ll see the best from Kate Nash: this feels like the last step before greatness.
  5. Dec 11, 2018
    70
    Listeners put off by Nash's cheekiness in the past may find her more relatable here, or at least more compelling, though Yesterday Was Forever still refuses to pander.
  6. Mar 29, 2018
    70
    Sometimes the way Nash has structured the songs becomes hard to follow, or downright abrasive, as heard in the vocal changes in "California Poppies." Yet there is always a feeling of purpose dictating the clear vision behind "ugly" moments.
  7. Mar 29, 2018
    66
    At 14 tracks, it feels pretty indulgent--only amplifying the fact that excluding a few choice cuts, these songs aren’t really all that good.
  8. May 4, 2018
    60
    Nash calls herself and this approach contradictory, and maybe that's the best way to describe this album, but that carries a semblance of dismissing the issues she sings through and the realities she and her fans, listeners, and others experience all too often.
  9. Q Magazine
    Apr 10, 2018
    60
    Admittedly, the mostly spoken Musical Theatre is indulgent twaddle and she often squawks where others sing, but there's Hole-like grit to both Life In Oink and the raised middle finger of Hate You, where cascading choruses butt against stroppy verses. [Jun 2018, p.113]
  10. Yesterday Was Forever was a record paid for by fans, and made for the fans.
  11. Apr 3, 2018
    45
    The music has some commercial cross-over potential that most people can't help but like, with various electric guitars and electronic keyboards arranged into pleasing and polished pop-rock. But these pleasant tunes don't have enough sharp dynamics to give them an edge and so end up as mostly fluff without so much substance.
  12. Mar 30, 2018
    40
    Musicians often try to recapture the slippery magic of their initial successes--but few attempt it as explicitly as Nash does here. By doing so, she’s proven the vitality and raggedy charm of her early work is long gone.
  13. 40
    Her winning formula back in 2010 was blunt honesty delivered in the form of spoken-word style poetry. Back then, she doled out witty, tongue-in-cheek observations and wry take-downs with ease. Attempts to recapture this style are marred by lazy rhymes and a delivery that’s often more just her speaking over the track.

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