Love Goes
| Sam Smith
Love Goes
Love Goes is the third studio album by English singer Sam Smith. It was released on 30 October 2020 through Capitol Records.The album was originally planned to be titled To Die For and was due for release in June 2020 but was delayed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith also felt it was insensitive to use the word "die" due to what many people were going through. -Wikipedia
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The Guardian
Smith attempts to mix despair with euphoria on an album that delivers plenty of gloom but not much glitter.
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Rolling Stone
The singer’s latest album pairs classic heartbreak with versatile, modern pop vocals.
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The Independent
In songwriting terms, though, kindness and decency only get you so far. For all Love Goes’ heart-on-sleeve melancholy, you long for it to land a few punches.
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Niner Times
“Love Goes” feels like a contemplative yet minimal account that is ultimately more comfortable sending up replayable, risk-free pop stylings over the more tempered musings that truly get us inside the head, and heart, of Sam Smith.
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EW
every rejection and happily-never-after just one more reason to take the pain, pour it all into a song, and start again.
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Cryptic Rock
Overall, Love Goes is a true-to-life story about love and the pain of losing it. Each song is clearly very personal and real, but the true dagger in the heart comes with Smith’s amazing vocal inflections. Brought together with thoughtful compositions, Love Goes, bonus tracks and all, shows us what a brilliant mind Sam Smith really is.
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NME
Although there are dalliances here with buoyant, radio-friendly material, album three sees the star largely stick to their tried-and-tested break-up songs.
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Idolator
It feels like a purposeful choice. Sam isn’t quite ready to embrace the mild optimism of “Love Goes.” Hopefully, they will be by the time album number four comes around.
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Consequence of Sound
Sam Smith seems to be the latter: Give them the most upbeat of anthems, and their soulful, elegiac voice will inevitably reveal its dolorous heart. No matter the transformations or trends, they can’t help but be themselves.
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All Music
the album is all tightly hemmed and neatly pressed. The faintly cosmopolitan dance-pop grooves and finely measured ballads offer few unexpected turns.
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The Post
Smith's third album Love Goes captures all phases of a breakup while still keeping an upbeat tempo and a somewhat positive outlook on what's to come, even if it's just for the night. Smith describes love as passionate, dramatic and real.
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The Line of Best Fit
Whilst Love Goes could have been an album containing only Smith’s newer dance sound, the album does offer something for all Sam Smith fans, to mixed results.
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MOVE Magazine
“Love Goes” is full of lyrics that convey an abundance of pain. Smith’s voice is rich, built for radio, and there’s something about these ballads that makes us crave a release
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Stereoboard
Smith's vocals are unfailingly powerful and rich, and the clarity of their tones are at times deeply moving. The sentiments behind their ballads remain affecting, and the dance tracks are well executed, but as a single piece they feel muddled and lacking in genuine insight. For an artist who has so much to say, ‘Love Goes’ expresses too little.
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The Irish Times
Lovelorn pop and unbreakable ballads.
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The Daily Californian
‘Love Goes’ by Sam Smith is happy melodies for hopeless romantics.
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Hotpress
Of course, there's a reason Sam has built up a reputation as the pop crooner of their generation – these are undoubtedly well-crafted, well-executed songs. But for the most part, they're crossing familiar terrain, with sweeping, cinematic compositions that find Sam musing on lost love and regret.
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Stereogum
It’s as fitting a metaphor for Smith’s discography as you’ll find.
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The New York Times
The sound of the singer and songwriter’s third album is sweeping and luxurious: intimacy blown up to cinematic scale.
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Evening Standard
Chasing the thrill into new territory.
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The Times
polished, but it doesn’t shine.
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Stack
Taken on the surface though, it’s a galvanising, sometimes vicious, always beautiful breakup record, and should be Smith’s defining work.
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The Guardian
The pop titan returns with a post-breakup album that takes risks without quite putting itself out there.
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That Grape Juice
With this LP, Smith delivers a sorrowful collection of the ways in, which love goes. They wear it like a badge of honor, not fighting its direction, but simply letting it flow where it must. Every rejection, every happily-never-after is just another reason for them to take their pain, put it in a song and let the love and pain flood its way to the happy ending they long for.
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musicOMH
As it is, Love Goes wallows too much in its comfort zone to be truly memorable.
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Pitchfork
The pop crooner’s third album is at times freer, queerer, and more enlivening than anything Sam Smith has done before, and yet too cautious to make what could’ve been a career-defining leap.
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Thomas Bleach
From start to finish ‘Love Goes’ is a journey of exploration, not just sonically but also lyrically. It may be a little different to what you expect from them musically, but that’s growth, and you will find yourself immersed in the emotion that is highlighted throughout the record.
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Tech2.Org
It does a great job selling records. But when worked against real-life material, or the passionate artistry of stars like Adele or Frank Ocean, composers who build an entire world with their experience and feeling – it quickly shatters.
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The Arts Desk
A self-reflective break-up album that's the perfect sound for lockdown.
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