YUNGBLUD
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90
Yungblud is an excellent album. It’s easily the most cohesive and mature album from him yet. It has anthems and heartfelt moments and it’s oozing with confidence and understanding of hate and battling it.
80
His rebellious spirit and heart-on-the-sleeve honesty about sexuality and identity make Yungblud a potent combination that endears as much as it excites, which should help him connect to fellow disaffected youth (and those who remember that tender age of angst and confusion).
80
Rather than fury or cynicism, this tellingly self-titled third album is driven by love, sincerity and vulnerability, as Dom Harrison kills his critics with kindness.
80
Despite my genre-wariness, Yungblud won me over with this one. LOL. Sadface. Black emoji hearts.
70
Ultimately, Yungblud makes it clear that seniority doesn’t hold a monopoly on insight or intellect. With this latest opus, Yungblud proves that point.
70
‘Yungblud’ has some of Harrison’s best tracks to date, but, as a whole, it’s not refined enough to be his magnum opus.
70
It might be easy to write Yungblud off as being stylistically derivative, if it were not so good.
70
When it’s good, he’s at the top of his game, but that doesn’t stop other tracks from losing momentum, and the album could generally do with a little bit of that wildcard energy.
60
It’s him who’s front and centre - backdropped by a refined, more radio-friendly soundscape.
60
With his second album, the rising pop-punk star shoots for the mainstream yet remains a staunch defender of the disaffected.
60
The songs are catchy, the emotions are sincere, and it is all driven by an intense desire to connect. But somehow Yungblud always sounds as if he’s trying too hard.
60
Despite the serious pose of his eponymous third record, the Doncaster firebrand is best when his tunes are big and bratty.
60
As much as he is a figure of ridicule to some, he is an icon to others, and to those people he has delivered much here. In tightening things up here and dialling down the more obnoxious tendencies of the past, he's grown into a much more confident and appealing figure.
60
Lyrically, he’s still crashingly unsubtle, always taking the most direct route to express feelings of self-loathing and insecurity ... But he’s calmed down a little, and that makes this his most appealing work so far.
45
The English singer’s third album promises eccentricity and personal revelation but delivers anonymous, uninspired pop-rock.
I would love to see this dude actually try to go over the top. I think he would really excel at taking these lukewarm songs, and using his explosive personality to bring them somewhere besides the waste basket.
written for The Ithacan (9/14/22)
YUNGBLUD is an interesting face in this new generation of edgy, commercial alt-rock stars. While not quite as outrageous as Machine Gun Kelly, he’s not competent enough to reach the decency of someone like Willow. YUNGBLUD lacks defining characteristics. Despite this, it’s hard not to find the guy likable. From his personal and confessional (yet often shallow) lyricism to his seemingly genuine passion for activism that he displayed during the ... read more
While there is almost potential here, the album falls flat in most aspects. It's fairly derivative pop-rock with pretty standard production as well. His voice can be grating at points, which takes me out of the experience immediately. 4/10
It's just alright. Compared to some of the other stuff from I heard; the lyrics felt disingenuous, tracks were pretty boring, and the album nosedives towards the back end EVEN THOUGH the first half was just meh. Some catchy choruses from Yungblud, but it can't fix the rest of the songs they are apart of. Meh
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Track List
| 1 | The Funeral 3:30 | 49 |
| 2 | Tissues 3:35 | 49 |
| 3 | Memories 2:35 with WILLOW | 50 |
| 4 | Cruel Kids 2:52 | 36 |
| 5 | Mad 2:25 | 34 |
| 6 | I Cry 2 1:56 | 21 |
| 7 | Sweet Heroine 2:31 | 33 |
| 8 | Sex Not Violence 3:22 | 34 |
| 9 | Don't Go 2:29 | 38 |
| 10 | Don't Feel Like Feeling Sad Today 1:56 | 35 |
| 11 | Die For A Night 1:32 | 37 |
| 12 | The Boy In The Black Dress 4:17 | 44 |
Total Length: 33 minutes
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12mo
sometimes i wish i had dementia so i'd forget some things i hear. this album is definitely one of those things
Added on: April 12, 2022