Forever

Popcaan - Forever
Critic Score
Based on 8 reviews
2018 Ratings: #694 / 890
User Score
Based on 24 ratings
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
NME
The Jamaican dancehall star returns with an immensely likeable crossover album that pulses with positivity.
80
HipHopDX
With no need to feign badmon, Poppy is free to take his seat at the table, inching closer and closer to timelessness and true international superstardom with each carefree slapper on this album. Where his debut was concerned with building on his formative years, this incubated follow-up hatches a newly minted worldview from the embattled singer.
80
Crack Magazine

For most of the album, the sweet signature sound of Dre Skull’s production shines brightly, and Forever is an album that sees Popcaan gaze beyond his own hype.

80
Q Magazine
His second LP plays to his familiar strength--that lightly Auto-Tuned voice--and a batch of R&B-friendly tunes with minimal instrumentation, the echoing paranoia of Watch Who You Tell and Call Me's sunny clatter being particular highlights.
69
Pitchfork

Popcaan’s second album is full of faith, joy, and the wealth of his international pop celebrity, but falters when it comes to his idea of romance.

60
The Independent

The results are, unfortunately, very mixed. At 17 tracks long, Forever has the components of a solid album but becomes overstuffed, needing cutting down and reshaping to fulfil Popcaan’s previously seen potential.

60
Evening Standard
While the first half of this album feels like a misstep, the second just about redeems it.
40
The Observer

So much of Forever is underpowered and deracinated pop, lacking the filth, grit and deadly sub-bass of his mentor Vybz Kartel.

chunderz
48

The lyrics lack substance, but the essence of dancehall and its passionate, enthusiastic leanings is too hard to deny. I won't be coming back to it any time soon, but 'Forever' is an album brimming with unassuming confidence from a talented artist.

EDIT: After a couple of (very painful) play-throughs, this is pretty shit.

Initial rating: 66

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Year End Lists

#41/Complex
#65/Noisey
/Esquire (UK)
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Added on: July 20, 2018