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Oct 29, 2020It's the prettily composed ballads — wounded, swooning, steeped in regret — that tend to lead.
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Oct 29, 2020The sound of “Love Goes” is sweeping and luxurious: intimacy blown up to cinematic scale. Each song feels elaborately hewed.
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Oct 29, 2020Whilst Love Goes could have been an album containing only Smith’s newer dance sound, the album does offer something for all Sam Smith fans, to mixed results.
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Oct 30, 2020The emotion is there, as ever, but the production sound doesn’t pull equal weight in distinguishing Smith’s work from other mainstream pop artists.
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Nov 5, 2020Love Goes, Smith’s third album, unfortunately fails to deliver on the promise of “How Do You Sleep?” The album is clumsily split in two, with no regard to sequencing; it begins with a collection of bubbling, at times electric songs spanning melodic funk, pulsing deep-house, and mid-tempo pop, before abruptly veering to five messy ballads that would be better delivered via Hallmark card.
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Nov 5, 2020The faintly cosmopolitan dance-pop grooves and finely measured ballads offer few unexpected turns. They're set apart more by a lack of gospel and soul, consequently rendering Love Goes plain by Smith's standard -- unfortunate for an artist whose instrument is anything but that.
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Nov 2, 2020It’s nice to hear them taking a few small risks. Next, it’d be great to see Smith get really wild.
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Oct 30, 2020Love Goes doesn’t quite have overwhelming moments to match the titanic power of signature hits like “Latch,” Smith’s career-making hit with house duo Disclosure, or 2017’s “Him.” In some ways, that’s OK.
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Oct 29, 2020In ‘Love Goes’ Sam Smith has produced a flawed but decent return that mirrors the introspection of this strange, difficult year.
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Oct 29, 2020‘Love Goes’ does possess a handful of pop- and radio-friendly tracks, but at its core its Smith’s knack for sap and soul – and their singular, chilling vocals – that forms the base of the record. When it comes to songwriting, Smith oscillates towards what they know.
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Oct 29, 2020For the most part, the mood here is pensive, the ballads plentiful and the pace glacial, with little evidence of the wild abandon that the singer supposedly longs for. It’s to Smith’s credit, but also their undoing, that they are just too damned nice.
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Oct 30, 2020Love Goes wallows too much in its comfort zone to be truly memorable.
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Oct 29, 2020An album that exists to waft sadly, but unobtrusively, in the background.
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Positive: 150 out of 178
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Mixed: 14 out of 178
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Negative: 14 out of 178
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Oct 30, 2020Arte como sus anteriores discos, este es un álbum fresco pero al mismo tiempo maduro. Mucho mejor que Positions definitivamente
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Oct 30, 2020
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Oct 30, 2020Just amazing! It made me dance, made me cry, made me feel powerful, is full of incredible rhythms and lyrics, simply love it!!!