…Gloomy side down.
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Edward Okulicz: “You” is probably my favourite single of 2011, and Nina Sky’s ethereal menace was a lot more convincing than Holly Miranda’s half-swallowed and zero-danger delivery. From her vocal cords, “We are all just animals” sounds empty, leaving the music to provide all the drama, and the music’s good but it’s not that good.
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Jonathan Bogart: Gothic creep, witchy twitch — but despite its best efforts it never builds to any real catharsis or convinces of any real dread.
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Katherine St Asaph: CREEP pumps too much fog and smoke into this atmosphere, resulting not in tenser atmospherics but in smog. Meanwhile, Holly Miranda’s voice is great but, at least when she handles lyrics, not at all eerie. She’s like Zooey Deschanel cast as Lady Macbeth.
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Anthony Easton: That’s some excellent Arthur Russell style full creep there, and this is how you get an entire idea looped for maximum effectiveness, like the trick about whispering in a crowded room to make yourself heard over the din.
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Jer Fairall: Too much Florence, not nearly enough Machine.
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