★★★★★
Stubbornly refusing to acknowledge 's imploring of rappers to quit with all the awful vocal effects, 2009's Death of Auto-Tune, has pressed ahead with this fourth LP, the follow-up to 2008's Billboard Chart hit . Blinkers up, he's delivered another set that dizzies with its disregard for a pure and simple vocal. By the end of these 17 tracks the head is heavy with images of the Smash robots battle-rapping against a crew from whatever planet The Clangers call home...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
T-Pain has been taking his sweet time since 2008's "Thr33 Ringz" when it comes to putting out a new album. To be fair though it's not exactly like he's needed to drop one to stay relevant. He's unquestionably the voice of digital R&B; hip-hop; in fact, if that was a category at the Grammy Awards, he'd be the sole nominee and annual winner each year...
- rapreviews.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
Auto-Tune has been in popular music since Cher's 1998 hit Believe, but like drum machines in '80s pop and compressed guitars in '90s pop rock, there was an excruciating long period in the '00s when nothing in popular hip-hop music could avoid its grasp. Now, after the rise, mock, and fall of Auto-Tune, T-Pain is back with his fourth album, rEVOLVEr, which prominently displays the pitch-correcting effect on 14 of 17 songs...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
Post Aqua Teen Hunger Force, post Taylor Swift duet, post "I Am T-Pain" toy microphone, it's hard to expect much from T-Pain, who's increasingly proven more interested in selling himself as a kind of free-floating weirdo brand name than making actual music. Yet half a decade after carving out a new niche for himself, the robotically voiced crooner with a gift for popping out snappy, semi-novelty-style hits seems wise for attempting to diversify...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
It's now common for labels to take a mulligan on underperforming singles from R&B and rap acts, but RCA has set the do-over record with T-Pain's fourth album, rEVOLVEr. Four of the record's advance singles were left off the final tracklist after they withered on the charts, a humiliating failure rate for a star who dominated the airwaves just a few years ago...
- www.avclub.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
Not that T-Pain would ever be confused for an album artist, but one would have to imagine the poor critical reception of Thr33 Ringz stung a little. After all, 2008 was the year T-Pain asserted that he was the ringleader of pop music and we would all be forced to follow his lead for years to come... and yet the opposite happened. The album went Gold, but other than "Can't Believe It" and "Chopped 'n' Skrewed" there's not a memory to be had...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-12-12
★★★★★
T-Pain is a very versatile man. Sometimes he sounds like an oversized bumblebee passionately remonstrating with a bouncer in a doomed attempt to gain entrance to a club, while at other times he sounds like an alien race of humanoid Theremins attempting first contact with the human race. There are also times when he sounds like a bog-standard rap vocalist who"s got a Jew"s harp stuck in his throat.
- www.nme.com
2011-12-12
★★★★★
Upon first reading the title of this album you're left thinking, "What the hell does this shit mean?" The moment you stop trying to translate it and instead pronounce it the way it's written, it becomes a lot clearer. That's right, T-Pain is a rapper turned singer...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
As the old saying goes, if 1,000 monkeys sat down at 1,000 vocoders, only one of them could end up producing something this bizarre. On almost every level, this is a million watt bag of crazy. T-Pain, emboldened by his Midas touch, giddily creates something here that comes off like a crazy robot comedy album, a confused collection of strip club love songs or the aforementioned monkey mix...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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