- Artist
- Bruce Springsteen
- Album
- Letter to You
Based on 9 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 57 to 80.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| musicOMH | 4/5 | 80 | “A truly collaborative spirit has fuelled the creative process, and the result is a timely and welcome burst of the sheer euphoria that only the E Street Band can inject” |
| Clash | 8/10 | 80 | “Bruce Springsteen’s career has been spent observing. As he once so aptly put it, the songwriter has spent half a century discussing the gap between” |
| Riff Magazine | 8/10 | 80 | “Bruce Springsteen delivers on 'Letter to You,' even if it feels like the celebration is a bit muted. The road has been long, and seemingly without end.” |
| XS Noize | 8/10 | 80 | “As well as being the first time since Born in the U.S.A. that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded live in the studio; Letter To You is "the only…” |
| Beats Per Minute | 75% | 75 | “Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s” |
| Pitchfork | 7.4/10 | 74 | “Read Sam Sodomsky’s review of the album.” |
| Spectrum Culture | 73/100 | 73 | “It's too early to tell if Letter to You will stand as a landmark Springsteen release, but Springsteen knows exactly what he wants to say and who can help him…” |
| Slant | 3.5/5 | 70 | “The album has all the familiar hallmarks of the E Street Band’s signature sound.” |
| Spill Magazine | 5.7/10 | 57 | “Bruce Springsteen Letter To You Sony Music Bruce Springsteen has returned with Letter To You, his 20th studio album, and follow-up to his 2019 dive into the Americana music of…” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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