Goodbye to one-liners? Never!
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Will Adams: Johnny, la gente esta muy cansado… what the fuck?
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Alfred Soto: My samples bring all the boys to the yard and they’re like I’m better than yours.
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Iain Mew: Finally someone has found something interesting to do with that rolling “Waves” sound — turn it dark and paranoid, and have it eat away at itself to the point of decay. With Lyse’s detached mutters, the chilled elements work as the kind of statement of being in control that has to be conflicted enough to stretch to accommodate lines like “are you thinking of me when you fuck her?”.
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Scott Mildenhall: Arrestingly sinister, but ultimately quite tedious. “Drunk Text” with all the fun sucked out, or “Two Months Off” without the light.
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Micha Cavaseno: The gooey yet quill-sharp riff is almost too jarring to be deep house yet drips in a way that seems so un-rock, so un-funk. The best comparison I could give it to you is trying to play a comb as an instrument and irritating your mother (Was that just me? Eh.). Lyse’s presence is, depending on the exact moments of her narration, Gainsbourg-style elusiveness or clunky camp, and the intended mystery of certain sections can really send this stuff over the top. But it’s ever so creepy a song in an age where way too much a habitual headbang is declared your only domain.
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Crystal Leww: Sick of dance music you can barely dance to.
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Ramzi Awn: “Goodbye” melds the smarts of 2015 with the rawness of 1990’s “Justify My Love” to great effect. Lyse could go on for hours, and you almost wish she did.
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