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Q MagazineMar 27, 2017It struggles to hold attention because even Blunt's poppiest songs start the same way as his ballads: a downbeat vocal about ghosting, love or how Twitter hates him. [May 2017, p.100]
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Mar 27, 2017Afterlove is a brave bid for contemporary relevance in 2017, a wonderful step outside his comfort zone that is more memorable and exciting than much of his output this decade.
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Mar 27, 2017While the lyrics may be banal and inoffensive--bar a few moments of pause-and-rewind strangeness including references to “modern friends” and “beautiful” mothers (not his)--the music is actively risible, with Blunt having adopted a watered-down version of Justin Bieber’s asinine tropical house.
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Mar 27, 2017A chart-friendly tropical dance-pop production boosts Ibiza resident Blunt’s querulous, tremulous balladry with a fresh Chris De Burgh-hits-Cafe Del Mar energy on Paradise, Bartender and California, but it’s bland business as usual on soppy numbers such as Make Me Better (co-written with Ed Sheeran) and Time of Our Lives.