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May 6, 2016Despite some intriguing musical excursions though Views is very much the Drake record in excelsis. It’s staggeringly long at 20 tracks and 80+ minutes, and is a grind for even the most ardent fan to get through.
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May 5, 2016Views, like Take Care and Nothing Was the Same before it, is brilliant in places and thoroughly bloated in others.
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May 5, 2016Drake is far too talented to turn in an album of dregs, and a lot of the content featured of Views is of the same breed of quality we would expect, like the instantly contagious 'Grammys', featuring Future. But for him to be so often contented with merely satisfactory results is somehow much more disappointing than a total failure.
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May 5, 2016It’s a disappointment for an artist who’s managed to get better and better with every subsequent release up until this point.
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May 4, 2016Views packs much less of a political punch than Bey’s must-hear epic, and at 20 tracks, Aubrey for the most part provides a rather overweight and lethargic waltz through his musical comfort zone.
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May 3, 2016Drake's Views is him lying on a therapist's couch whining for large chunks of time and the album drags as a result. Yet, if you took the best dozen tracks, you'd have a perfectly enjoyable, listenable LP.
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May 3, 2016Yes, at times it does drag a little and--though clever and often charming--the content isn’t particularly inspiring.
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Apr 29, 2016Views genuinely makes for mesmerising listening, even if much of the album seems to consists of lazy meanders through Drake's psyche.
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May 6, 2016Yes, Views is both overlong and underwhelming. But there’s a glimmer of something more poignant beneath its bloated surface.
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May 6, 2016Drake feeds his own ego and starves his humility. There are engaging moments scattered throughout, such as the subtle outro to “9” or dvsn’s stellar turn on “Faithful,” but from the content to the execution, Views is strangled by the 6ix God’s own delusions.
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May 10, 2016Eventually, people will get tired of the same old song if it's sung too often. On Views, Drake is starting to sound a little weary of it himself.
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May 3, 2016A casual, only slightly-different-than-usual release smothered in atmosphere with one solid R&B song (that’s reportedly been kicking around in a vault for a while) left stranded in the album’s penultimate slot.
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May 2, 2016Views is ostensibly set in Drake's hometown of Toronto, but most of it sounds like it's being narrated from a shuttered room at 3 in the morning. The moodiness seeps into a weary, bleary series of recriminations tinged with bitterness and petulance.
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May 4, 2016It’s not completely without merit--some of the backing tracks have a mesmerisingly entropic grip, as well they might, with 14 writer/producers involved in a single track--but the overall effect is utterly wearying, and unpersuasive: after all, only fools waste pity on the wealthy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 442 out of 977
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Mixed: 287 out of 977
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Negative: 248 out of 977
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