Critic Reviews

• It's an album that leaves you feeling quietly joyful and, as in the spare, poignant closer "Writer," in which Nutini ruminates on the interplay between art and life, might just make you cry.

  Rating: 90/100
  AllMusic

• The breadth of Last Night in the Bittersweet has Paolo Nutini making a convincing case that he could eventually be joining his influences as one of rock’s elder statesmen himself.

  Rating: 80/100
  The Arts Desk

• Last Night in the Bittersweet is Paolo Nutini's most musically expansive album to date, but it's his tender side that shines through the most.

  Rating: 80/100
  The Skinny

• He may have emerged amid a wave of earnest male singer-songwriters – James Morrison and Ray LaMontagne spring to mind – and perhaps been superceded commercially by his acolyte Lewis Capaldi, but he’s now so far removed from what everyone else is doing that he can basically make whatever he wants.

  Rating: 80/100
  Evening Standard

• By throwing away the “pop star” handbook, Nutini ekes out a slowburning charm to these songs, despite the risk.

  Rating: 80/100
  The Irish Times

• Where others have opted for too much over too little, nothing on Nutini’s fourth album feels like excess. Covering deep love, the turmoils of the mind and a writer’s struggles, a beat isn’t missed on this significant and timeless record.

  Rating: 80/100
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