• Record Label: Atlantic
  • Release Date: Nov 24, 2014
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
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  1. Q Magazine
    Dec 8, 2014
    60
    Each song still has the inevitable moment of electronic ascent but, as with Coldplay's Recent break-up record, you can';t help but wonder how these songs might've sounded left raw and unslickened. [Jan 2015, p.133]
  2. Dec 8, 2014
    60
    He seems like a featured artist on his own album, which would be standard issue for other producers turned artist, but not Guetta.
  3. Nov 24, 2014
    60
    The recipe might be different, but the ingredients are largely the same.
  4. Nov 24, 2014
    60
    Each track has the invention to be a smash hit but the cumulative effect is rather wearing, an album of no emotional depth, in which everyone is going all out to deliver the big single.
  5. Jan 5, 2015
    50
    The songwriting remains basic, as always, and vocalist Sam Martin blandly belts "Lovers on the Sun" and the club hit "Dangerous." But the album sounds consistently great.
  6. Listen speckles similar crackers (‘Goodbye Friend’, ‘Hey Mama’) between gushes of sizzle sewage, as if all of Ibiza’s been trying to get high on glittery laxatives.
  7. Nov 24, 2014
    40
    Guetta’s signature throb--so loud in its way that it almost loops back around to silence--is inescapable, overpowering almost every other song with a booming lushness that’s used seemingly by numbing default.
  8. Nov 24, 2014
    40
    Listen still delivers the familiar crowd-pleasing builds and drops, the formulaic song structures.
  9. Nov 24, 2014
    10
    Not only is none of this fresh, its fast-food vacuity is presented as proud branding.
User Score
5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 108 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 108
  2. Negative: 34 out of 108
  1. Nov 24, 2014
    1
    OMG where do i start. this has to be the most boring and worst album made as far as EDm/pop is concerned. There is literally nothing in thisOMG where do i start. this has to be the most boring and worst album made as far as EDm/pop is concerned. There is literally nothing in this album that hasn't been heard before. All the songs follow the same formula and are literally all the same thing with the same drops and the same sound. What makes this worse for me is the fact that David Guetta had the guts to say he focused more on songwriting and was coming out with a new sound. **** please. this is the same boring EDM formula every so-called DJ uses. At least Calvin Harris had the decency to not hype his album knowing he was making some more formulaic crap. This album deserves a nice zero for wasting my time and everyone else's but I'll give it a one just because i actually liked one of the songs.
    NB: This album is literally the first album in which Sia has a song I don't like. You went and broke Sia's perfect streak with this horsecrap. Well done.
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  2. Nov 26, 2014
    10
    This is definitely my favorite upbeat, dance music cd this year. I plan to wear it out, while exercising and during my morning commute toThis is definitely my favorite upbeat, dance music cd this year. I plan to wear it out, while exercising and during my morning commute to energize me and put me in a positive mood to start the day. Every track is high energy and so much fun. Full Review »
  3. Nov 26, 2014
    0
    After huge disappointment of Motion by Calvin Harris, another highly anticipated album by famous French DJ David Guetta made a debut. Lead byAfter huge disappointment of Motion by Calvin Harris, another highly anticipated album by famous French DJ David Guetta made a debut. Lead by single Dangerous featuring Sam Smith, the album failed to impress audience unlike his previous works. There is nothing special to enjoy every single beat of the tracks and the whole album just go wrong. A very bad year for EDM albums. Full Review »