Billboard - 85
The album is loaded with luscious orchestration, motivational mantras and playful sex metaphors. Its taught 10 tracks bring to mind the record Justin Timberlake could have made last year, if he had dared to leave anything on the cutting room floor.
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The Guardian - 80
Williams is wise enough to know what he does best, and as the Prince-like finale, It Girl, embarks on its long instrumental fade--guitar riffs streaking out like fireworks while cowbells clang--you can't deny that this is the sound of an artist thoroughly enjoying himself.
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Entertainment Weekly - 75
Ultimately, G I R L testifies to a woman's worth.
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The Independent UK - 60
Like Random Access Memories, it’s an enjoyable dance-pop album lacking a central focus. But one whose diffident charm makes a pleasant change from the overwrought wailing that routinely afflicts R&B.
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Fact Magazine UK - 20
From the orchestral string intro of ‘Marilyn Monroe’ to the funk-rock jam session that ends ‘It Girl’, G I R L is 45 minutes of warmed-over retro-pop pastiche, cribbing from Michael Jackson and Chic, from disco and yacht rock.
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Pretty Much Amazing - 16
The real embarrassment is that more than the work of his peers or his idols, mostly Pharrell’s just ripping off himself to seriously diminished returns.
Pretty Much Amazing - 16
The real embarrassment is that more than the work of his peers or his idols, mostly Pharrell’s just ripping off himself to seriously diminished return
“Gust Of Wind” is followed by the eight-minute dud “Lost Queen,” which sounds like Jack Johnson fronting a college-quad drum circle. “What planet are you from, girl, / And are there others like you there?” goes the opening line. Unfortunately, G I R L itself hardly raises the same question. D-
Listen to G I R L at your own risk at iTunes Radio.
Pretty Much Amazing indeed An offensively pedestrian album.
An offensively pedestrian album.
