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- Summary: The second full-length release from pop singer-songwriter Benson Boone features production from Evan Blair. Jason Evigan and Malay.
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- Record Label: Warner
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 1 out of 7
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Mixed: 5 out of 7
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Negative: 1 out of 7
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Jun 20, 2025Boone has the kind of phenomenal voice that can push a lot of average material into the plus category just through sheer lungpower and technique alone. If you can bypass the fact that there aren’t great songs here, there’s still a lot left to be impressed by.
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Jun 24, 2025“Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” contains some of the album’s more memorable subject matter, providing a detailed account of the reignition of an old flame while waiting for a date in a diner, and is livened up by a beat switch toward the end. The rest of American Heart, however, amounts to competently performed filler that fails to dig very deeply into who Boone is as an artist or a person.
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Jun 27, 2025Overall, American Heart is pleasant, but lacks some of the rock'n'roll kick and glitz that Boone's stage flipping antics imply; a momentary rush of moonbeam ice cream that leaves a sweet aftertaste, but not much else.
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Jun 20, 2025Slotting “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” in as the opener, though, is both a blessing and a curse. It starts the tracklist off with surprising energy, only for the following nine tracks to take the vibe from ‘driving in the summertime listening pop radio’ to ‘letting out an audible groan at the music selection of this Kohl’s.’
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Jun 20, 2025OThe real problem is the gloopy, mush-mouthed ballads that take up the rest of the album.
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Jun 20, 2025His latest deflates under the weight of all its glam-pop and Seventies and Eighties pastiche. At times swaggerless and too pristine in his attempts to corner the market of retro-pop stardom, Boone loses the youthful edge of his debut and the rawness that made his biggest hit soar so high.
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Jun 24, 2025Instead of a musical or narrative point of view, Boone relies on speaking his truth, a songwriting axiom that doesn’t take into account whether someone’s truth is fundamentally boring or has been rendered in pop music countless times before.