Maroon 5Best Maroon 5 Albums Ranked

V

rollingstone

8.0

“"Going so high, we fuck the sky!" Adam Levine sings on Maroon 5's fifth album – and he and the band make good on their promise. The 11 songs here are precision-tuned and lustrously polished, jammed with hooks and choruses that build a man cave in your brain. In terms of stylistic seamlessness and fluid forward motion, V might even be sharper than their 2012 blockbuster, Overexposed, which gave us ”

Overexposed

rollingstone

7.0

“It takes chutzpah for a band to call its fourth album Overexposed, especially when the singer has spent most of the past year zinger-slinging in a comfy red chair on The Voice. You can hear that chutzpah in the blinged-up disco sheen of Maroon 5’s new LP, which is why it’s their best yet. This […]”

Call and Response: The Remix Album

rollingstone

7.0

“Maroon 5, art rockers? These remixes of the group’s hits by indie acts like Of Montreal and Deerhoof make the idea seem oddly plausible. Maroon 5’s bubblegummy pop — and Adam Levine’s anodyne vocals — make the band ideal candidates for remix treatment, and they’ve corralled some impressive extreme makeovers: hip-pop (Swizz Beatz), Euro-dance (Bloodshy […]”

It Won't Be Soon Before Long

rollingstone

7.0

“Released in 2002, Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane didn’t win its new-artist Grammy until 2005, a lonely twenty-first-century monument of artist development. Descrying bankable hits in Adam Levine’s love for the funk and knack for the hook, private investors and then Clive Davis worked it till it gushed oil. So the only surprising thing about […]”

JORDI

nme

6.0

“paint-by-numbers pop that occasionally wows”

Hands All Over

rollingstone

6.0

“On Maroon 5’s third album, their already polished sound is burnished to a high-gloss glow. With producer Robert "Mutt" Lange — the guy behind AC/DC’s Back in Black, Def Leppard’s Pyromania and Shania Twain’s biggest hits — at the helm, the dozen songs on Hands All Over are models of craftsmanship and efficiency, each clocking […]”