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81

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Oct 1, 2025
    83
    The album unfolds like whispered revelations amongst close friends.
  2. Apr 8, 2025
    81
    Her lyrics mostly return to subjects she has revisited so many times that, on Jellywish, she also reflects on her weariness of talking about them: grief, death, and mortality. Here, though, even these topics are part of the record’s life-affirming warmth.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 7, 2025
    80
    The record prompts leaning in, not least of all for the gentle, cantering insistence of "Have Heaven" and "Our Hearts In A Room", with its soft piano and brush work. [Apr 2025, p.29]
  4. Apr 7, 2025
    80
    What makes Jellywish so often profound and not just sad or mindful is a combination of candid simplicity and hints of the supernatural.
  5. 80
    Jellywish includes some of her most intimate work. As a listener, it’s as if you’re being privately serenaded during an exquisite chemical sunset.
  6. Apr 7, 2025
    78
    The production is lightly touched, but the record leans greatly into Florist’s best asset: Sprague’s confessional songwriting. While some of the verses get jumbled in her stream-of-consciousness style, the stories still disarm, ache, and impress.
  7. Apr 9, 2025
    70
    Musically, Jellywish follows an understated path. The adept finger picking of “Levitate” gives way to gently insistent toms on “Have Heaven,” along with Sprague’s soft playground patter of a chorus.
  8. Apr 21, 2025
    60
    The album’s consistent tempo and tone end up making Jellywish feel strangely longer than its concise 34-minute runtime. But, when the band cuts loose a little, such as the lead guitar breaks on “This Was A Gift” and “All the Same Light,” it’s tantalizing to imagine where Jellywish may have ventured given more of a loose rein and a sense of adventure.

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