LP1
| Liam Payne
LP1
LP1 is the debut album by English singer Liam Payne, released on 6 December 2019 through Capitol Records. The album is hip hop and R&B-orientated, drawing influence from Usher and Justin Timberlake. LP1 includes the singles "Strip That Down" featuring Quavo, "Get Low" with Zedd, "Bedroom Floor", "For You" with Rita Ora, "Familiar" with J Balvin, "Polaroid" with Jonas Blue and Lennon Stella, "Stack It Up" featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie, "All I Want (For Christmas)" and "Live Forever" featuring Cheat Codes. LP1 debuted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart and number 111 on the Billboard 200.- Wikipedia
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US Magazine
Payne, 26, leaps from one genre to the next, creating what feels more like a compilation of ear-candy singles rather than a cohesive, well-thought-out body of work.
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Go London
The 17-track album is filled with perfectly packaged hits that see him reaffirm his love for hip-hop, dabble with reggaeton and even croon a Christmas track.
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Metro
LP1 is a competently assembled, generically contemporary exercise in box-ticking. It draws on trap, Soundcloud rap, Latin pop and sundry other production devices seemingly obligatory for young male singers, presumably on the basis that sounding a bit like every other thing in the charts will help keep him there.
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Young Post
Now we have Liam Payne’s attempt to break out of the 1D shadow with LP1, and – we’re going there – it’s Payne-ful. In all, LP1 amounts to just another sets of tracks destined for the trap-pop scrap heap, with a single, unwavering, watered-down mood.
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Inquisitr
Liam Payne’s debut album ‘LP1’ receives lukewarm reviews.
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Spectrum Culture
One Direction’s Liam Payne is basically a nothingburger, bringing little more than his voice and his name brand to his debut album LP1. LP1 doesn’t try to transcend pop. It’s a star-showcase rather than an artist-showcase, an attempt to land a few songs on the charts more than anything else.
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I News
The lyrics mostly concern love and sex, of course, and the first half’s new tracks blur into one long mash of hackneyed low-grade romantic pleas and odes to bedroom raunch. Rating:
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The Musical Hype
LP1, the debut album by One Direction standout Liam Payne has its fair share of moments, but don’t call it a game changing pop album. All in all, LP1 is an enjoyable, well-rounded debut album by Liam Payne. Throughout the course of the album, there are some solid songs.
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Hot Press
Even his attempts at ballads and more serious moments fail, and result in soulless pop. LP1 is just a mess.
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Study Breaks
A dull, misogynistic waste of time, ‘LP1’ proves the former One Direction singer belongs in the trash.
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Grazia
Often LP1 sounds like it's gunning for commercial radio play and coveted playlist spots.
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AP News
Liam Payne stumbles badly with embarrassing debut CD.
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Stereoboard
Payne's album feels like a catalogue product: packaged and delivered complete with all the mod cons and relevant gimmicks, but without an ounce of style or design. These empty, soulless beats are too inappropriate for teeny boppers and entirely vacuous for adults.
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Independent
He’s got a nice set of pipes. He gets the songs across. But without imposing any personality on them he’s just, well, a singing six-pack.
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The Columbus Dispatch
Album Review | Liam Payne goes in wrong direction with embarrassing debut record. Payne’s 17-track “LP1” never really gets off the ground, a collection of monotonous club songs that often sound like warmed-over Justin Bieber rejects.
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Entertainment
Payne is the latest boyband star to release a solo album - with terrible results. This is Payne's attempt at being naughty/sexy, with pretty saucy lyrics about his 'girl liking it both ways' and '4 in the morning, who else you wanna invite?' - but he doesn't quite manage to pull it off.
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Junkee
Earlier this month, Liam Payne of One Direction fame released LP1, his solo debut. Days later, he was mauled in the press. The reviews have been unanimously bad.
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The Guardian
Liam Payne: LP1 review – genre-ticking anonymity. Spread over 17 songs that tick off genres with all the flair of an automated Spotify playlist, Payne’s anonymity remains the album’s default through line. Occasionally painful yet weirdly Payne-less.
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Pedestrian
Liam Payne’s solo album ‘LP1’ is being subjected to the most brutal reviews imaginable.
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NME
Liam Payne – ‘LP1’ review: eclectic sounds, but little depth. It's meant to showcase his maturity, but ‘LP1’ finds the former One Direction star so focused on ticking boxes that he forgets to have fun.
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Variety
One Direction’s buff one is the second-to-last one to finally drop a solo album, but he's not playing a great game of catch-up. Each number finds Payne heading for another down-tempo, lower octave, sex-mumbling, lover-man rant that’s perfect for any after-hours rendezvous.
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Pitchfork
The former One Direction member’s solo debut is just another pop star flailing to find his identity amid trend-hopping production and half-baked lyrics. LP1’s 17 songs, including a 2018 Rita Ora collab from the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack and a Christmas number tacked on at the end, have the ambiance and trend-scraping of a Zara fitting room.
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The Sun
FORMER One Direction star Liam Payne has landed himself in hot water after one of the songs on his debut album has been accused of 'reinforcing stereotypes' about bisexual women.
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The Times
Liam Payne: LP1 review — dull debut from former One Direction man.
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Idolator
A rocky start: Liam Payne’s ‘LP1’ debuts at number 111 on billboard 200. The album is also lacking a recent chart hit.
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Knox News
Apart from some embarrassing lyrical passages, “LP1” isn’t terrible. It’s just that Payne doesn’t push himself and as a result, the release doesn’t really go anywhere.
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Sound Bite Reviews
There’s nothing cohesive about the album and there’s no through line running through it, apart from maybe Payne sending the message of “I enjoy sexual relations”. This album stinks of sweat and Lynx body spray as Payne tries his hardest to sound sexy and intimate and comes off like a teenager that just hit puberty and is suddenly obsessed with sex.
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Gulf News
One of the brand new songs called ‘Both Ways’ received backlash within hours of its release, with many condemning it for “fetishising bisexuality”.
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Mirror
Liam Payne 's highly anticipated debut album LP1 is reportedly on course to miss out on a spot in the top 10.
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Thomas Bleach
‘LP1’ is a record that is very hit and miss and sadly there are more misses than hits, but that comes down to the positioning of who he is as an artist.
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Daily Mail
One Direction bandmate Liam Payne's album, which was released on December 6, has struggled to make any such impact, peaking at number 17 in the UK and a bruising 111th place on the America's Billboard 200.
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Washington Times
“LP1” never really gets off the ground, a collection of monotonous club songs that often sound like warmed-over Justin Beiber rejects. It doesn’t help that some of the offerings are more than two years old.
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Elijahaura
Much like the rest of the entirety of the album, each single had no essence of an artist- they didn’t represent or show who Liam Payne was as a solo artist. The album is less than one note- perhaps half of a note.
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Farmers' Harvest
Overall “LP1” provided not just one genre but numerous due to the fact that it is Payne’s first album as a solo artist so he wanted to explore to find his sound.
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Lainey Gossip
The album as a whole is a flop. LP1 lacks any sort of distinguishing characteristic or personality to it.
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The Central Trend
A collage of seventeen very different songs were perfectly put together to create this extravagant album— a plethora of different genres compiled into one fifty-eight-minute album.
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MTV
Liam Payne's debut solo album is all moody ballads and bedroom bops.
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Feedimo
One Direction’s Mr Boring lets his inner sexual piranha loose – with frightening results.
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Queerty
One Direction’s Liam Payne dropped his debut album LP1 earlier this month and the verdict is in: despite a heavy promotional campaign, the album is somewhere between a bomb and a dud.
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Freaky Party
LP1 is a terrible pop album, but very effective contraception.
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Gaga Daily
Listening to LP1, you almost feel sorry for Payne. It’s maybe more pathetic to have failed not for risking too much, but aRating: 4.3/10
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Telegram
The album reaches ludicrous heights .
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Extra
Liam Payne has left fans outraged after they accused him of fetishising bisexuality on his new album LP1.
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Pajiba
A terrible pop album.
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Forbes
LP1 has earned a less-than-stellar critical reception so far.
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