• Record Label: BMG
  • Release Date: Oct 31, 2025
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. Oct 31, 2025
    80
    The result is an album full of songs like "For the Girls" and "Many A Day A Heartache" that come across like best case scenarios for what one have hoped that the band might sound like someday, blending together elements of all their eras to end up with a powerful rock & roll sound, while the ballads, especially the album ending "Everything Now", have an emotional depth that feels earned.
  2. Mojo
    Oct 28, 2025
    80
    It works beautifully, the band gently distorting their songwriting surfaces wit sudden psychedelic sun-spots and experimental flares. [Dec 2025, p.81]
  3. Oct 28, 2025
    80
    Passionate and reflective, ‘We Are Love’ captures a band rooted in experience and brimming with creative renewal.
  4. Oct 28, 2025
    80
    We Are Love celebrates their history but skips the victory lap, creating some of their most important music to date in the process.
  5. Nov 3, 2025
    72
    Okay, they may never reach the heady heights of Between 10th and 11th again, but we should just be grateful that they still exist and are still looking to move their sound forward in ways that many of their ‘peers’ seem incapable of. It doesn’t always hit, but when it works it’s a glorious thing.
  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Nov 13, 2025
    70
    The Charlatans of this 14th album have evolved into a far richer and more reflective band, as much concerned with inner as outer spaces. [Dec 2025, p.75]
  7. Uncut
    Oct 28, 2025
    70
    They can still surprise, too, with tinges of organ psychedelia, anxious time-signatures and, on the sweet acoustic reverie of "Salt Water", evocative found sounds. [Dec 2025, p.29]
  8. Oct 31, 2025
    60
    If there’s a fault to We Are Love, it’s probably that the immediate hooks that define The Charlatans’ best moments are missing. It’s an album more built on atmosphere and feel, and you do sometimes miss that exhilarating rush that tracks like One To Another, Love Is The Key or Weirdo had in spades.
  9. Oct 30, 2025
    60
    This 14th offering is less reunion comeback, more business as usual. It's an album which follows a similar blueprint to most of their others. [Dec 2025, p.101]

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