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Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Jul 24, 2025
    97
    New Threats From the Soul is jam-packed with arresting turns of phrase, but never flounders under their weight—each witticism feels earned and essential rather than shoehorned or self-indulgent. Instead, each line contributes to an exhaustive document of how extensively heartache blurs our lenses—how we find it everywhere, in everything. How it finds us.
  2. Aug 4, 2025
    90
    He lays it all bare for those just not brave enough to come to terms. We’re world-weary, yes, but transcendence can be found in any number of places, including the simple patterns of everyday life.
  3. Jul 24, 2025
    90
    What an incredible head-spinning trip this album is. [Aug 2025, p.26]
  4. Jul 25, 2025
    87
    Arriving at a particularly abundant time for lyric-driven indie rock drawing on folk and country, New Threats From the Soul stands proudly on its own.
  5. Jul 29, 2025
    84
    With New Threats, Davis, flanked by the talented Roadhouse Band, makes his mark, perhaps indelibly, joining a select group of artists who are deepening, broadening, and revamping the Americana genre.
  6. Aug 12, 2025
    80
    Even after listening to this album on repeat for the past month or so, it still feels like there’s plenty of corners to explore and riches to uncover.
  7. The Wire
    Aug 7, 2025
    80
    The more we listen, as the images and phrases and grooves swim past, we're glimpsing pieces of a private puzzle, an exhilarating series of riddles with no answers. [Sep 2025, p.50]
  8. Record Collector
    Aug 7, 2025
    80
    Yep, that good. It's obvious we're in the presence of greatness, and the rest of the album doesn't disappoint. [Sep 2025, p.103]
  9. 80
    Some of the unexpected and as such extra-fresh thrill of the new of encountering Davis’s debut with the Roadhouse Band may now have eased into an instantly recognisable house style, but New Threats from the Soul provides another compelling flowering of a unique and idiosyncratic songwriting talent.
  10. Mojo
    Jul 24, 2025
    80
    Choruses swell gorgeously but unpredictably out of the continual wordplay and there's occasional moments of musical reverie. [Sep 2025, p.79]

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