 Up All Night received generally positive reviews from music critics . At Metacritic , which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics , the album received an average score of 64 , which indicates " generally favourable reviews " . AllMusic 's Matthew Chisling commended the album for its appeal to the teenage audience , " limitless potential for the time being , this is a perfectly sized , and targeted , collection . " PopMatters ' Zachary Houle called the album a " laudable addition to the boy band pantheon " and a " well @-@ crafted slice of pop you can pop bubbles to " . Digital Spy 's Robert Copsey commended the album for " a collection of pg pop rock with killer choruses " and summarised it as " an adorable as expected debut with a surprising amount of bite " . Cosmopolitan 's Sophie Goddard lauded the album for a collection of " toe @-@ tappers that are just impossible to dislike " . The Independent editor Simon Price gave the album two out of five stars , and in an assessment wrote : " the album consists of fifteen instalments of inoffensive daytime radio pop , of which half the songs sound like " I Want It That Way " by the Backstreet Boys , the other half like " Free Fallin ' " by Tom Petty , it will sell by the zillion . " Daily Star 's John Earls complimented the group for creating an album " that doesn 't take the easy route " , quipping that the album has " big personalities " and " belting fun pop anthems " , whilst Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone criticised the album for lacking personality . Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly perceived that the album " won 't help the group earn much respect in music circles . But if a tween @-@ pop empire is what these boys are after , they 're definitely headed in the right direction " . 
