Last Exit (Junior Boys album)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	89/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
Blender	[7]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[8]
The Guardian	[2]
NME	9/10[9]
Pitchfork	8.9/10[10]
Q	[1]
Rolling Stone	[4]
Spin	A−[11]
Uncut	[12]

Last Exit received highly positive reviews from music critics. The album holds a score of 89 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim".[5] Writing for Pitchfork, Scott Plagenhoef praised the album for its "deceptively simple and very approachable tracks" and remarked that songwriter Jeremy Greenspan was able "to fold elements of nearly a quarter-century of forward-looking pop into a distinct sound without sounding either conceptual or trading on contradictions or the smoke-and-mirrors of attention-grabbing eclecticism."[10] Uncut wrote that "the contrast between romanticism and sonic daring, alien time signatures and freakishly pretty tunes, is irresistible."[12] The Guardian's Dorian Lynskey stated that Junior Boys' "spectral vision of electronic pop is an understated, unpredictable delight",[2] while PopMatters' Adrien Begrand called Last Exit "a warm, friendly, entirely accessible pop album."[13] Andy Kellman of AllMusic noted that the album's songs "can be enjoyed with or without all of the analysis and context" and praised the duo's "ability to be alluringly aloof".[6] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly called the album "prettily nostalgic (think New Order, Erasure, Bronski Beat) and gloriously right now."[8]