Critical Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
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| Blender Magazine | |
| Mojo | |
| NME | |
| Pitchfork Media | (5.1/10.0) |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | A |
| Rolling Stone | |
| SPIN | (8/10) |
| Uncut | |
Blacklight tells a dark story. It is "an album written about Los Angeles' sketchy side ... of characters starving for fame and fortune". It received generally positive reviews from the media. The album received many Fleetwood Mac comparisons. Critics praised the band's move into a newer sound, with Rolling Stone calling it "yet even more adventurous" (referring to the band's 2004 album More Adventurous). However, the LP received mixed reviews from fans. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 32 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews."
This album was #8 on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.
The "January/February 2008" issue of Blender Magazine named Under the Blacklight the tenth best album of 2007, referring to it as "an album of classically sleek, apocalyptic '70s L.A. coke-rock, in the fine Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan tradition."
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