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| 4.0 excellent | YRI | August 16th 23 |
Easily her best album since EMOTION. It's great to see Carly slowly move away from the 80s worship to more contemporary sounds.
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| 2.5 average | Get Low | July 28th 23 |
Attempting her best Saturday Night Wrist impression on that art
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| 4.0 excellent | cjbizzlebizzle | December 29th 23 |
Best CRJ material since EMOTION. From the live jazzy instrumentals of the opening track, to the breakbeat-esque drums of 'After Last Night', to the catchy CRJ signature bangers 'Shy Boy' + 'Stadium Love', to the slowed down soulful 'Kollage', Carly really expands her repertoire here and injects some much needed creativity into these tracks after a few albums that found the mark but started to get somewhat repetitive thematically and musically. The Daft-Punk nod on 'Psychadelic Switch' rules and perhaps Carly used this record to overlay her signature pop stylings with some influences or musical styles that are important to her. Regardless of the creative aim, Carly's vocals and melodies mesh extremely well with the varying jazzy to electronic to funky to disco-esque music tracks laid beneath them. Personally I find 'After Last Night' to be the best track with snappy beats and wonderful vocal melodies but the album is chock full of catchy staples.
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| 2.5 average | fog CONTRIBUTOR | August 9th 23 |
I really really really really really really don't understand the CRJ thing. Average McAverageson strikes again.
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| 2.5 average | lz41 | August 8th 23 |
Apart from the exquisitely luxurious sounds of 'Kollage', "The Loveliest Time" is dance of a disappointingly empty and low-energy kind.
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| 3.5 great | ajcollins15 | August 3rd 23 |
Just as good as the last record with a lot of the same problems in that it has a hard time standing out from other great JRP projects. She continues to dazzle us with bright and shimmery synthpop and dance-pop which all one can ask for from the real queen of modern pop music. It?s a fun listen while it?s on, but by the end, it kind of falls apart with less memorable songs as the beginning.
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| 3.0 good | Xhoven | August 1st 23 |
A lukewarm and overall lifeless effort, sad to say.
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| 3.0 good | viv4ever | July 31st 23 |
Album is pretty mid. rNot as exciting as her last B-sides alum, and yes this feels like I'm listening to B-sides.
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| 3.0 good | Erwann S. STAFF | July 31st 23 |
This is undoubtedly a Carly album, displaying her best ("Come Over" and "Shadow" are both peak hi-energy and classy Carly) and her worst (there are many bad moments here).
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| 3.5 great | tmagistrelli | July 29th 23 |
Record is mostly forgettable but never bad and occasionally excellent. The light touches of funk sprinkled in a few
tracks have me intrigued on her next direction.
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| 3.0 good | Sowing STAFF | July 28th 23 |
I can't fault her for playing it safe when this definitely tries some new things, but I miss banger Carly.
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| 3.5 great | lurxy | March 30th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Pon EMERITUS | March 26th 24 |
| 3.5 great | CRX | February 11th 24 |
| 3.2 good | A.R.O. STAFF | January 20th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | December 8th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | December 7th 23 |
| 2.5 average | MrFemil | November 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | DANcore | November 9th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | UrukHai | November 2nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shamus248 CONTRIBUTOR | September 10th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Coast | September 6th 23 |
| 2.5 average | MO | September 5th 23 |
| 3.5 great | tellah | August 26th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rmazer | August 23rd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Respawn | August 18th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | August 14th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | August 14th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | August 3rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Luna | August 1st 23 |
| 3.0 good | nbats | August 1st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | ylfsmj | July 31st 23 |
| 3.5 great | jesper STAFF | July 29th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | alamo | July 29th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | jlsg | July 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | iGuter | July 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | jtswope | July 28th 23 |
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