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Metacritic	66/100
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AllMusic
Consequence of Sound	C
The Guardian
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Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Independent
Billboard	90/100
Entertainment Weekly	B

Xscape is the second album of previously unreleased tracks by American singer Michael Jackson. It is his eighth album released through Epic Records, and it was released on May 13, 2014 by Epic Records and MJJ Music. It is the fifth album released by Sony and Motown since Jackson's death in June 2009. L.A. Reid, chairman of Epic Records, curated and served as executive producer for the album enlisting Timbaland to lead a team of record producers, including StarGate, Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, John McClain, and Rodney Jerkins, to remix and contemporize the eight selected tracks. Jerkins produced the title song and is the only original song producer to work on the final productions.

Xscape was promoted across the Sony group of companies; Sony Mobile used a snippet of "Slave to the Rhythm" in their advertising campaign for the Xperia Z2 mobile phone. "Love Never Felt So Good" was announced as the official lead single to premiere on May 1, 2014. The deluxe edition of the album includes all of the songs in their original forms as well as one bonus track and two videos.

Officially announced on March 31, 2014, Xscape features 8 tracks which were originally recorded between 1983 and 1999. It is the second such album of posthumous material to be released by Epic Records since Jackson's death in 2009. The title track "Xscape" was recorded in 2001 for Jackson's tenth studio album Invincible. American producer Timbaland and Epic Records chairman and CEO L.A. Reid executively produced the album, with additional production from Rodney Jerkins, StarGate and John McClain. Timbaland said that Reid had personally approached the producer at his home to discuss the new Jackson project.Jesse Johnson, former lead guitarist of the American band The Time revealed that he had worked on elements of one song that featured Mary J. Blige, Questlove, and D'Angelo. However, the track failed to be included in the final track listing of the album. Reid said that they wanted to honor Jackson's legacy when naming the album, "the title of this album (Xscape) honors Michael's album naming process. He always chose a song from the album to name his projects and, beginning with Thriller, used only one word titles, each with an edgy quality to them (Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, HIStory and Invincible). This is true of the new project."

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