Hooray for sullen expressions, too…
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Katherine St Asaph: This is what happens when everyone gets into M83, isn’t it?
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Iain Mew: If there must be such obviously post-MGMT indie, let it all be as warm and fizzy and inventive as this.
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Anthony Easton: Some of the same tricks as Pet Shop Boys, but more atmospheric and less operatic, and so it becomes a little broken near the end. It blows up, so it’s not quite broken, but it isn’t as exploded as it could be. It feels dangerous.
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Jonathan Bogart: I like it when horns pack a punch, but I can’t find it in me to care about anyone’s generic, heavily-filtered apocalypse. At least Friendly Fires had rhythm.
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Brad Shoup: Thought we were in line for another “Nothing to Worry About”, but ended up with lacerating timbres and some silly new-century fretting. Ace mixing, suitably shaggy group vocals, well-deployed trickeration on the brass, a shelling campaign of an interlude: won’t this suit for a connection?
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Edward Okulicz: “No Love” sits in the middle of six or seven touchstones, none of which I can place, but it sounds pretty nice. The song on top of this seething, pulsating and queasy indie-synth romp, mind you, I can take or leave.
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