• Record Label: Concord
  • Release Date: Apr 11, 2025
Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Apr 11, 2025
    90
    In an unexpected way, this is also June's most overtly pop record; despite its genre-hopping nature, her melodies are insistent and memorable with strong hooks and relatively short runtimes. Although the tempos wane during the album's second half, its quality persists.
  2. Apr 11, 2025
    90
    Something raw, something ancestral is born and found in the freedom of this album. It serves beyond the ear and reaches to the core of the collective heart. I’m captivated by the force and variety from which she’s presented each song.
  3. Jun 18, 2025
    80
    While June’s album is deeply introspective, her vision of love is also expansive. Across Owls, Omens, and Oracles, she echoes hooks’ call for care to nurture both the self and the collective.
  4. Mojo
    Apr 18, 2025
    80
    The Blind Boys Of Alabama and Norah Jones pops up in Sweet Things Just For You, but no guest can overshadow June's sweet and salty tones. [Jun 2025, p.89]
  5. Apr 11, 2025
    80
    The mood is generally uplifting, but when the sublime I Am In Love finds her in a more quizzical mood – “What does it mean? Is it just words?” – she stretches every vowel to dazzling effect.
  6. Uncut
    Apr 11, 2025
    80
    Her most gently ambitious and dazzlingly diverse album to date. [Apr 2025, p.32]
  7. Apr 11, 2025
    80
    It’s an album about opposing those forces with positivity, in the casually masterful, deceptively mellow style Valerie June has spent her career perfecting.

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