| Love in the Modern Age | ||||
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| Released | April 18, 2020 | |||
| Length | 34:41 | |||
| Label | Yep Roc | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 68/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| American Songwriter |  [3] |
| God Is in the TV | 9/10 [4] |
| Paste | 7.1/10 [5] |
Love in the Modern Age is the twelfth studio album by American musician Josh Rouse. It was released on April 13, 2018 under Yep Roc Records. [6]
Love in the Modern Age was met with "generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 68, based on 8 reviews. [1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 76 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews. [7]
| Publication | Accolade | Rank |
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| God Is in the TV | God Is in the TV's 50 Best Albums of 2018 | 48 [8] |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Salton Sea" | 3:58 |
| 2. | "Ordinary People, Ordinary Lives" | 4:02 |
| 3. | "Love in the Modern Age" | 4:28 |
| 4. | "Businessman" | 4:00 |
| 5. | "Women and the Wind" | 3:51 |
| 6. | "Tropic Moon" | 3:41 |
| 7. | "I'm Your Man" | 3:18 |
| 8. | "Hugs and Kisses" | 3:38 |
| 9. | "There Was a Time" | 3:47 |
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| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [10] | 21 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [11] | 45 |
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