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Pitchfork
The Beatles' first undisputed masterpiece is their quietest and most folky record, reflecting the influences of contemporaries like Dylan and the Byrds.
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AllMusic

While the Beatles still largely stuck to love songs on Rubber Soul, the lyrics represented a quantum leap in terms of thoughtfulness, maturity, and complex ambiguities.

100
Beats Per Minute

Rubber Soul shows a group of performers just before their unstoppable and insurmountable height – it’s brilliant, refreshing and wholly influential, but it’s nothing compared to what’s coming in the following years.

100
Rolling Stone

On Rubber Soul, the Beatles grew up with an album of bittersweet romance, singing adult love ballads that feel worldly but not jaded.

100
The Telegraph
Rubber Soul sees Lennon raise his game in the making of a record with open and spacious production.
100
Q Magazine

It's where pop begins to blossom from black-and-white into colour.

Doublez
97

The History of the Albums – n°287 [For this last episode of the year 1965, here is a complete rework of the review on Rubber Soul, Love]

Exhausted by the hellish pace of touring and their entire workload, Rubber Soul marks the time when the Beatles will leave their costumes (metaphorically), looking for a way out, to focus solely on the artistic. We are not talking about just any door, which opens and closes at will, the four boys were more precisely looking for a door to seal for ... read more

NR

It's a crime to hate on this.

I will stand as a witness when you're on trial for your heinous acts, trust me.

pengtings
68

rub her soul??? i hardly know her

90

Norwegian cream

LeL
88

its a really interesting and wholesome album that shows them in this transition between their pop era to the more experimental one

6WordReviews
79

This is where normal bands peak

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Added on: September 1, 2012