Q: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
Sentence 1: Some critics call it his best album in years (Tony Scherman, Entertainment Weekly ). Others are bemused by Lanois' addition of xylophones, organ, Caribbean rhythm, and atmospheric hoopla. Sentence 2: The album was his worst ever.
A:
slate