WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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CRITIC REVIEWS
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‘When We All Fall Asleep…’ is a memorable and game-changing debut record, with Billie's disruptive streak front and centre. We'll no doubt see the mainstream scrabbling to replicate it.
91
Whatever missteps there may be, Eilish’s commanding, yet vulnerable, performances easily overcome them to create one of the best debut albums of the young year.
90
‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ is a brave and fortuitous debut album from the LA teen, capturing the hopes, fears and vulnerabilities of an entire generation. The genius in this record is its unaffected relatability.
90
‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ is a supremely exciting, innovative first move from a pop voice that feels utterly fresh and modern.
90
She's become rapidly and dangerously famous in a short amount of time, and When We All Fall Asleep, its artistic achievements aside, manages to exist somewhere between critique, honest reflection of the zeitgeist and a progression of the Billie Eilish mystery.
90
This album cements her as a force to be reckoned with.
90
It’s rare to hear someone so young have this much fun on their debut record while still crafting something that’s downright game-changing in its bravado.
85
She has created an album so unquestionably true to her quirks and personality traits that fans are offered a true insight into her process and psyche.
80
Overall, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? is a startlingly good introduction to Billie Eilish, an album full of attitude but with the talent to back it up.
80
With When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, she demonstrates that she can do it all, hinting at a bright future that could truly go in any direction, as messy and hopeful as youth can get.
80
The music that has captivated her fellow teenagers is anything but pop-by-numbers. It’s strange and brittle, displaying multiple personalities in a single song.
80
On this debut, Billie Eilish delivers an exceptional body of work. This is a clear portrait of the artist and an in-depth insight into her world. It’s certainly true to say that Billie Eilish doesn’t miss much and she isn’t afraid to commit her experiences to song.
80
This surprising, haunting album will speak powerfully both to her peers and to anyone who remembers how youth can sometimes feel like an overwhelming weight.
80
This isn't the “ta-daaaaa” off-Broadway cabaret of, say, Lady Gaga, or the exhausting pantomime of Amanda Palmer, it's real LA noir, smoky dive, mystery theatre.
80
The siblings are living proof that the most creative works can come from environments where you’re encouraged to create freely, in spite of a world that often tells us the opposite.
80
It's a shame that the popularity and promotion behind Billie Eilish has poisoned the well a bit, as When We All Fall Asleep is actually an artful, well-crafted, and unique pop album.
80
Fascinatingly ambitious, and often extremely fun, this debut finds pop in safe and thrilling hands.
80
Eilish's success is no fluke — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a debut record that showcases a bold artistic vision and a willingness to move beyond the boundaries of pop conventions.
80
Eilish is something special, a pop avatar of a Generation Z mood of sensitive disaffection.
80
The highs are thrilling, and despite their obvious pedigree, arranged unlike anything else in contemporary pop. They also reveal the lows more starkly.
73
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? has its faults, not quite hitting its full potential, but it gets damn well close, delivering an infectious record for the post-party hangover.
72
The debut album from the meteoric pop star lives in a world of its own: gothic, bass-heavy, at turns daring and quite beautiful.
70
It’s exhilarating when pop stars throw caution to the wind like this.
70
The record’s highlights seem to come not when Eilish crafts a huge chorus or a memorable lyric, but rather when the beat dictates the flow of the song.
70
It’s an album full of dressed-down avant-pop with D.I.Y. immediacy and intimacy that can still hold its own amid Top 40 maximalists like Ariana Grande and Halsey.
70
Eilish's genre-bending pop is a culmination of Gen Z's joyless exploration of the world, and signals a welcome end to the cookie-cutter teenage pop star.
60
The album plays like an angsty diary, scribbled with pseudo-depth that rings true to what it’s like growing up. It doesn’t have a definitive narrative, but explores sexuality, drugs and love in a way that doesn’t talk down to the listener.
60
In the end, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a triumph of style over substance; it is lyrically in lockstep with Eilish’s generation and, superficially at least, ticks a more than enough of the requisite sonic boxes, particularly in terms of the production, to meet with the approval of the tastemakers.
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For the most part, When We All Fall Asleep is stiflingly dull and bloated, with subpar production from Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell.
You guys ready for one sentence reviews that make penis jokes or jokes based on the album name or artist name that get 50 likes because of that epic funny haha but overall the only thing contributing to the albums discussion is the rating? Anyway this album is poopoo peepee pretty good.
Ok, this album isn't a classic. Hell no. It's the most accessable and easy to digest 'dist0rted and edgy!!!!1!' album to come of this year, and if you've spent enough time in this genre of emo pop, then ... read more
Whisper singing at it's most inappropriate and annoying.
I had to check my speakers and throw on some other songs just to make sure the awful distortion was this album and not me.
None of the song's length times look bad on paper but listening to them, they feel twice as long as they need to be.
This will definitely be popular but I personally can not figure out why other than everyone on Earth had shitty taste at age 15.
It makes me genuinely uncomfortable to imagine this as a trendsetter.
8 ... read more
Edit: Melon’s 8/10 will help stans feel validated 🙃
I actually found myself thuroughly enjoying this album quite more than the relative rest of the field in this new wave of pop stars that has been emerging as of lately. Though there is nothing particularly impressive on this record other than Billie’s musical maturity and stage confidence at such a young age. I found the bulk of the tracks on this thing to be quite fulfilling and fairly wel orchestrated. The album’s ... read more
FAVORITE TRACKS: XANNY, WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER, MY STRANGE ADDICTION, ILOMILO, I LOVE YOU, GOODBYE.
LEAST FAV TRACK: 8.
This album was my introduction to Billie Eilish. Previously I've heard her music on the radio and I actually dug them a lot. Listening to this album was such a pleasure and had some really unique and amazing production. The lyrics on this album are shocking and engaging. This album is one of the most interesting debuts I've heard from a pop artist. Since then, it has been on regular rotation.
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Track List
| 1 | !!!!!!! 0:13 | 57 |
| 2 | bad guy 3:14 | 81 |
| 3 | xanny 4:03 | 80 |
| 4 | you should see me in a crown 3:00 | 79 |
| 5 | all the good girls go to hell 2:48 | 77 |
| 6 | wish you were gay 3:41 | 79 |
| 7 | when the party's over 3:16 | 87 |
| 8 | 8 2:53 | 67 |
| 9 | my strange addiction 2:59 | 78 |
| 10 | bury a friend 3:13 | 85 |
| 11 | ilomilo 2:36 | 82 |
| 12 | listen before i go 4:02 | 80 |
| 13 | i love you 4:51 | 85 |
| 14 | goodbye 1:59 | 73 |
Total Length: 42 minutes
Year End Lists
| #1 | / | Consequence of Sound |
| #1 | / | NME |
| #1 | / | The New York Times: Jon Pareles |
| #1 | / | Us Weekly |
| #1 | / | Yahoo Entertainment |
| #2 | / | Billboard |
| #2 | / | Entertainment Weekly |
| #2 | / | musicOMH |
| #2 | / | PAPER |
| #2 | / | Rolling Stone |
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3mo
i really don't like this album but like her second record wayyy more. Why was I born to be such a boring asshole
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Added on: January 30, 2019