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Nov 24, 2025The lyrics don’t always land, and Parker’s refusal to scribble sound into every corner of his tracks is, admittedly, disappointing, considering his past creations. Regardless of these artistic choices and a few genuine blunders, what matters is that Kevin Parker still searches for truth—and occasionally finds it here in his standout songs.
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Oct 17, 2025By its fourth track ‘Loser’, the album’s first single, his insecurities are so hammered down to the listener – “I’m a tragedy / tryna figure my whole life out” – that it begins gets in the way of his arrangements, which so far are imaginative and varied compared to the stylistic tedium of ‘The Slow Rush’.
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UncutNov 10, 2025Too much here feels diaphanous and directionless. [Review of the Year 2025, p.29]
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Oct 21, 2025Those aching for Parker's winning synthesis of classic rock's melancholy and poppy euphoria still have plenty to chew on here. To ravers, Deadbeat might sound like not much more than beach bar music.
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Oct 20, 2025For an artist who’s capable of making genre and generation defining records, Deadbeat just simply isn’t good enough. Too much fluff, too many unfinished ideas, too ponderous, too flabby.
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Oct 17, 2025Aside from spotty traces of Parker’s genius, at no point does the album elicit any passion since there’s really nothing on there that makes you want to own a copy of it on vinyl or witness the tracklist live.
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Oct 21, 2025Most of these songs aren’t offensive on their own. .... The cumulative effect, though, is exhausting, a daisy-chain of shaky half-measures that doesn’t even feel particularly committed to being depressing.