Late Night Feelings

Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings
Critic Score
Based on 24 reviews
2019 Ratings: #428 / 805
User Score
Based on 456 ratings
2019 Rank: #551
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Exclaim!

In the solid Late Night Feelings, sadness is more than an abstraction here: it's multifaceted, multilayered and mellifluous melancholy.

90
Loud and Quiet

It’s brilliant: unsettlingly off-balance with singles that shouldn’t be singles; production that crackles through ebullient torch songs with familiar crests and high ecstasies.

90
Clash

Ronson’s ability to tap into each artist’s strengths and dig out their particular prowess allows each voice to shine through and own each individual track.

81
Paste

Night Feelings is his sharpest, sturdiest effort yet, made so by its cohesive, downer-dance sound and its hip slate of all-female featured vocalists.

80
Evening Standard
The wealth of talent is a reminder of this producer’s knack for backing future female stars, such as Adele and the late Amy Winehouse. But Ronson has also stepped up as a songwriter and solo artist on a masterful contemporary disco album.
80
AllMusic

Overall, this is one of Ronson's best works -- a complete pop album.

80
NME

Ronson's fifth album of "sad bangers" is a mixed bag of brilliant pop songs and sleepy filler tracks.

80
DIY

‘Late Night Feelings’ is the last dance at the disco, as romances are made and dreams are broken; at least with Mark at the helm, you know the playlist’s in good hands.

80
The Arts Desk
Another well-crafted record of pure pop hits.
80
The Telegraph

'Sad bangers' served with a dollop of sauce.

80
The Independent

The emotional cohesion the record loses in its shifting cast of singers/songwriters/genres it makes up in DJ-savvy textural variety.

80
God Is in the TV

These carefully structured moments make Late Night Feelings Ronson’s most cohesive and strongest album. These feelings sound perfect late at night and they will last way beyond.

75
Entertainment Weekly

Feelings all goes down easily, but Ronson’s own creative DNA remains a mystery. This isn’t his manifesto; it’s a mixtape.

72
Pitchfork

It is ... a worthy entry in this still-developing pop pantheon, authentic and honest in its rendering of many shades of feminine sorrow.

70
Spectrum Culture

It innovates a little here and there, but the strength of Late Night Feelings comes largely from the relief it provides.

70
Gigwise

Late Night Feelings is a very listenable album with some excellent highlights, but a grand and new sonic statement it is not.

70
Rolling Stone

Rangy, sexy and fairly seamless, an LP to play all the way through after a night of clubbing if you happen get lucky, or if you don’t.

60
The Guardian

Ronson’s Achilles heel is, as ever, making everything feel as if it’s been endlessly worked on: his obsessional qualities can cloud the magic of the best pop. But equally, that craft is what songs blaring from iPhones sometimes lack.

60
The Sydney Morning Herald
Unable to elicit the feverish, chart-topping moments of his last effort, Ronson opts for an onslaught of meditative, feminine energy that harks back to the early noughties.
60
The Irish Times
There is no Uptown Funk but this concoction of dancepop and laidback floorfillers has several stand-out moments.
50
musicOMH

Late Night Feelings finds him abandoning the retro fetishism that has dominated his career to date, completely immersed in late-2010s pop trends, with mixed results.

usedtobe
70

I admit, I've never been a fan or an avid listener of this guy's produced work but this one caught me by surprise. Working with other artists could be a tricky affair but he treads it with ease as these tracks glides in color, buoyed with emotions. You won me with this one, Mark.

aaron
68

Ronson has crafted, a series of vignettes I certainty didn't know he could still weave, laced with "late night feelings "of summer love coming to different ends, different moments its a great collective piece of music that is tinged with universal feelings and pop constructs you can see every track here sound-tracked by lonely and quiet summer places filled with night and a syncopation that makes you want to move with heartbreak, it isn't anything new and it's appeal will wash away ... read more

bajafrecuencia
50

Production is amazing but fells flat over repetitive rhythms and by-the-numbers songwriting.

Decent 5

73

Nice

hylertunt
85

so rare is it to see a DJ release a personal album at all, let alone detailing the demise of his marriage. gorgeously produced, as expected, but full of emotion and honesty (especially toward the latter end)

have held this record close to my heart for a number of years and every time i come back it sounds as fresh as first listen - i wish more people appreciated it

gabrielbarcelos
70

existe tempos na indústria musical onde um certo tipo de sonoridade toma conta da indústria e dita a tendência a ser seguida pelos seus artistas durante um tempo de validade de 5 anos, assim como um produtor vira o queridinho dos artistas e permanece sendo ordenhado até não conseguirem extrair mais nada dele. E este é mais um exemplo de ambos

Mark Ronson sempre foi bem mais conhecido em uma pequena bolha mesmo tendo produzido Back To Black da Amy ... read more

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Added on: April 11, 2019