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Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Record Collector
    Oct 3, 2025
    80
    While this long-gestating album bears very little for those artists' fans to immediately relate to, it conjures something new and different instead. [Nov 2025, p.103]
  2. Sep 23, 2025
    80
    An unusual, beguiling collaboration, you hope it’s the first chapter in this duet, and not the last.
  3. Sep 23, 2025
    80
    Perhaps the main strength of 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s is that these songs rarely turn out to be what you thought they might be, which is a fairly on the nose metaphor for life itself – especially viewed 35 years later through the distorted prism of the 2020s.
  4. Sep 18, 2025
    80
    Tyler's parents worked as songwriters in Nashville. 41 Longfield Street Late '80s is informed by this nostalgia, but it's also a forward-thinking record that pushes its influences into another realm.
  5. 80
    It’s ultimately futile to fight the album’s considerable charms, culminating in “When It Rains”, a low-lit, minimalist beauty that eventually curdles into a storm of fiercely shrieking guitar feedback and electronic dissonance.
  6. Uncut
    Sep 16, 2025
    80
    "Timber" is almost all Tyler, "Spider Ballad" a lowkey club throbber, all of it only made possible by this unexpected partnership. [Nov 2025, p.33]
  7. Mojo
    Sep 16, 2025
    80
    A low-key exploration of how delicate melodies, processed noise and the occasional beat can intertwine, When It Rains drifting artfully to uncompromised skronk. [Oct 2025, p.83]
  8. Sep 22, 2025
    77
    The duo’s mutual respect, selfless skills, and tender chemistry have delivered an album that is among both artists’ best.
  9. The Wire
    Sep 16, 2025
    70
    The album's seven winding tracks, inspired by 1980s country, fit squarely within the impressionistic ambient country movement. But while its influences loom large, the album finds its strongest footing when familiar structures dissolve. [Oct 2025, p.53]
  10. Sep 19, 2025
    60
    An attempt to resurrect the good old days and/or boys this is not, but Tyler and Hebden have managed to provide a fresh if slightly disjointed take on formative inspiration.

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