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| Released | 24 May 2019 | |||
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| Length | 42:43 | |||
| Label | Mexican Summer | |||
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Reward is the fifth studio album by Welsh musician Cate Le Bon, released on 24 May 2019 by Mexican Summer. [4]
Reward dives into "revelatory" art pop and is a "lurid rush" of avant-pop music. [5] [6]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 8.2/10 [7] |
| Metacritic | 87/100 [8] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 [6] |
| Financial Times |  [10] |
| The Guardian | [11] |
| Mojo | [12] |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10 [13] |
| Q | [14] |
| Rolling Stone | [5] |
| The Times | [15] |
| Uncut | 9/10 [16] |
Reward was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on 18 reviews. [8]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Miami" | 5:17 |
| 2. | "Daylight Matters" | 4:18 |
| 3. | "Home to You" | 5:27 |
| 4. | "Mother's Mother's Magazines" | 4:17 |
| 5. | "Here It Comes Again" | 3:24 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 6. | "Sad Nudes" | 3:08 |
| 7. | "The Light" | 4:51 |
| 8. | "Magnificent Gestures" | 5:00 |
| 9. | "You Don't Love Me" | 3:06 |
| 10. | "Meet the Man" | 3:55 |
| Total length: | 42:43 | |
Credits are adapted from the Reward liner notes. [17]
Musicians
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| Chart (2019) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] | 32 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [19] | 86 |
| US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [20] | 8 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard) [21] | 32 |
| US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [22] | 35 |
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