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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. Jul 15, 2025
    70
    It’s the sound of a restless artist choosing comfort for a moment and making a hangout record that still sparkles with his signature charm. It’s psych-pop-rock that doesn’t need to be groundbreaking to be satisfying.
  2. Jun 18, 2025
    80
    Segall displays a new level of maturity that seeks to harness the power of his craft, proving that killer riffs can be enjoyable without being polarizing.
  3. May 30, 2025
    90
    It's definitely a milestone and a career highlight, as well as a release that anyone who likes real live, breathing and bleeding rock & roll should be glad exists.
  4. May 28, 2025
    73
    The album is full of familiar moves—but comfortingly so.
  5. May 28, 2025
    80
    Possession finds the psych-rock hero piecing together a comprehensive portrait of his artistic range, which, this time around, manifests in Sixties pop-influenced melodies that swirl around blazing guitar solos, acoustic solace, and bouncy nostalgia.
  6. May 28, 2025
    80
    There’s always been a debt to The Beatles percolating around within Segall’s vast discography: a certain elegant way with a tune, a Lennonish rasp, that’s suggested he could make a more straightforward album, with a little more appeal beyond the garage rock illuminati. Possession is essentially that record, one where his Beatlesy nous aligns to a sort of strutting glam-baroque, without losing the dynamism that made Segall’s scrappier projects such fun. [Jul 2025, p.82]
  7. Uncut
    May 28, 2025
    80
    [The album is littered with songs that are grand, detailed and ambitious. [Jun 2025, p.39]

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