- Artist
- Paul McCartney
- Album
- The Boys of Dungeon Lane
Based on 8 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 72 to 100.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Stone Australia | 5/5 | 100 | “We review Paul McCartney's new album 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane,' a warm, nostalgic late-career masterpiece.” |
| Paste | B- | 81 | “Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.” |
| Riff Magazine | 8/10 | 80 | “Paul McCartney’s 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane,' which he made almost entirely by himself, might be his most personal album ever.” |
| Record Collector | 4/5 | 80 | “Comic actor Harry Enfield, on his recent UK tour, summed up Paul McCartney perfectly, affectionately talking of the Beatle’s utter childlike wonder at” |
| musicOMH | 4/5 | 80 | “Music is a drug, so they say. The Beatle/living legend is in his ninth decade, but on his 20th solo album he shows no sign of giving it up” |
| Spectrum Culture | 73/100 | 73 | “With a mixture of humor and poignancy, The Boys of Dungeon Lane works as a series of sketches, of half-remembered incidents elaborated on with the help of either unlocked memories…” |
| Spill Magazine | 7.2/10 | 72 | “PAUL McCARTNEY THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE MPL/UNIVERSAL It has been over five years since Paul McCartney’s last studio album, McCartney III, and McCartney has noted that during those years,…” |
| Pitchfork | 7.2/10 | 72 | “Read Ben Cardew’s review of the album.” |
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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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