That’s cool, we’re probably just gonna head to bed ourselves…
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Will Adams: If “Dreams” was a kaleidoscopic deep sleep cycle, then “Up All Night” is an afternoon nap where you awake feeling no more rested than twenty minutes ago and with drool on your pillow.
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Eleanor Graham: This is the first Beck song I’ve ever heard in my life. It kind of sounds like… James Blake? Oh no, right, that’s just the sound of someone falling on to a pool table in the video. Here we go… haha, I could actually dance to this! Nice choppy guitar. Bracing string scribble. Fairly obvious keyboard-bangy hook. Really, quite obvious… pre-chorus feels… extremely familiar… OK, just spoke to my little brother and turns out this was on last year’s FIFA soundtrack. So this isn’t the first time I’ve heard a Beck song. But this is the only Beck song I know. And the only thing I know about Beck is the only thing that everyone knows about him. And I mean, this is just fine, isn’t it? It’s no “Jealous.” And moreover, it’s no “The Sound,” which it could match in euphoria, if it were less concerned with Sony-advert politeness.
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Iain Mew: A year of hearing this on FIFA 17 menu screens and I’ve pretty much never felt anything about it; its undemanding blokey groove might as well be designed for the purpose. Bring on FIFA 18 and additional chances in my life to listen to Lorde’s “Supercut.”
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Ryo Miyauchi: Beck had more funk in him than this before, and definitely better party rhymes. The jitterbug from Modern Guilt might be wearing out after almost 10 years since he’s done this, but at least that digitized vocal warble helps forgive the slight stiffness.
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Patrick St. Michel: Teases interesting collage-like snippets of sound before settling into uninspiring movie-trailer pop.
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Alfred Soto: He not only uses “rhythm” in a lyric, he uses rhythm! Stitched together out of gospel-inflected house panel, old school hip-hop beat, and the guitar from 2005’s “Black Tambourine,” “Up All Night” will inspire sighs of relief from some skeptics and “too late” from the rest of us.
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