Honest (Future album): Difference between revisions

|MC= 8078/100<ref name="metacritic.com">http://www.metacritic.com/music/honest/future</ref>

Upon its release, ''Honest'' was met with generally positive reviews. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an [[weighted mean|average]] score of 8078, based on 912 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="metacritic.com"/> Simon Vozick-Levinson of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' said, "Lots of rappers talk about drugs, but Future is one of the few whose music makes you feel like you're actually on some. When he raps, it's in pulse-racing staccato bursts; when he sings, his Auto-Tuned vowels stretch and melt like alien dreams. Two years after his debut LP, ''Pluto'', sent shock waves through mainstream rap, everyone else is still playing catch-up. Now the Atlanta oddball is vaulting ahead once again with his second album – a weirder, grander, dizzier trip than its predecessor."<ref name="rollingstone1"/> Sheldon Pearce of [[Consequence of Sound]] said, "While ''Pluto'' explored the depths of Future’s gritty, spacey Auto-Tune rap aesthetic, ''Honest'' peels back layers of emotional context, narrowing in on what truly makes his raps so compelling: the duality and sincerity of his character."<ref name="consequenceofsound1"/> David Jeffries of [[AllMusic]] said, "Only bad news to be had is that superior bangers like "Sh!t" and the "Karate Chop" remix with Lil Wayne have to be hunted down as bonus tracks on deluxe editions, but even on the regular version, the world of Future is as wobbly and as wonderful as ever, and thanks to ''Honest'', it just got grand."<ref name="allmusic.com"/> Craig Jenkins of [[Pitchfork Media]] said, "''Honest'' surges with the self-assurance of an artist finally coming into his own. The bruisers are icepick sharp, the ballads restlessly toy with convention, and Future’s heightened ease with both makes ''Pluto'' look like a transitional album in retrospect, the dress rehearsal for this, the actual takeover."<ref name="pitchfork.com"/>

Erin Lowers of ''[[Exclaim!]]'' said, "''Honest'' demonstrates Future's keen ear for production, as well as a sense of realism hidden between braggadocio lyrics, club hooks and reverberating production. By all accounts, Honest reveals that Future's music was never a "right place, right time" story, but one that's unique and has staying power."<ref>http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/HipHop/future-honest</ref> Evan Rytlewski of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' said, "For an A-list rap album, ''Honest'' is refreshingly small in scope. It resists grandiose production flourishes, message songs, ambitious themes, run-on suites, and most of the other tropes rappers over-rely on to telegraph importance. Instead it just lets the bangers rip, freeing Future to cruise down his preferred lane unimpeded. Some of his major-label peers might do well to think this small from time to time."<ref>http://www.avclub.com/review/future-resists-major-label-bloat-his-brisk-honest-203649</ref> Omar Burgess of [[HipHopDX]] said, "No one realistically expects Future to make the type of leap Three Stacks did between ''Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik'' and ''ATLiens''. But if he expounds on the type of substance he hints at on “Special,” his album cuts will be as equally potent as his singles. For now, he’s returned with a slightly updated, less flawed version of 2012’s ''Pluto''. It’s not the classic balance of style and substance ushered in by the Dungeon Family’s first generation. But it does help further the argument that both elements aren’t mutually exclusive."<ref>http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.2264/title.future-honest</ref> Chris Kelly of ''[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]]'' said, "''Honest'' doesn’t have the shock-of-the-new that ''Pluto'' offered during its finest moments, which is understandable: Future’s Auto-Tuned weirdness has quickly become part of the Southern rap fabric."<ref>http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/22/honest/</ref>