Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Clash | 9/10 |
| The Daily Telegraph | |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10 |
| The Guardian | |
| musicOMH | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.0/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
Overgrown received widespread critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 38 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Martyn Young of musicOMH stated that "Overgrown is more diverse and dynamic than before. Blake seems to have found an ideal middle ground between restrained and measured balladry and disorientating electronic soul". This sentiment was echoed by The Guardian's Paul MacInnes, who wrote that "Blake's palette is unique, his abilities as a composer are great and quite obviously growing." In a review for Allmusic, Fred Thomas noted that "while it might take listeners a few spins to find the right head space for the album, once they get there, it's an easy place to get lost in." He also stated that "hough the stormy textures and somber reflections are pretty specific to a particular mood, Overgrown finds and fits that mood perfectly." Clash said the album is "paradoxically less fragmented than its illustrious predecessor, ideas rotating core values guided by an affirmatively unseen hand. Which ultimately makes this an even better record."
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