Scott’s pun was better than this song.
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Scott Mildenhall: People love themselves some Schulzy guitars, they love anthemic directives and they love surprise instruments — what could go wrong? Well at least it’s only the second part. “Two High” stops short of being enlivening because it’s hard to tell where the balance is meant to be struck between world weariness and whirled-cheeriness; certainly Trevor Terndrup never sounds that enthused. It’s not such a surprise — “put ’em up; two high” is not exactly “wave your hands! Superman!”, after all.
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Hannah Jocelyn: Milky Chance meets Saint Motel – meaning, reggae influenced and almost annoyingly chill, yet with killer horn lines and a sense that there’s slightly more to this group than they let on. In fact, this is what I wanted “Sun Comes Up” to sound like when I found out Rudimental was going tropical, and it has me interested in whether this group will dissipate like the former or make consistently solid pop-rock like the latter.
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Brad Shoup: My goodness, the placid guitar-on-knee figure is back. I didn’t miss it. But the chill is dispelled by a modified mambo brass chart. It smacks of fun, which cannot be said of Trevor Terndrup’s mewl: he yells “put ’em up” like a cop.
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Will Rivitz: “Moon Taxi” is an appropriate moniker for the group: the song is weightless, serviceable, and – much like driving at 80 miles per hour or so towards the moon, which is nearly 250,000 miles away – more than a bit repetitive.
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Thomas Inskeep: Tennessee jam band builds song around tricky guitar figure, adds some interestingly-placed horns, ends up sounding oddly like Nordic-popular dance-pop. And also, weirdly, Foster the People.
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Alfred Soto: A lilting guitar figure over phony stadium clap-along — what will the kids think of next?
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Katherine St Asaph: Remember the feeling of downloading music sound-unheard and an evocative name turning out to be directionless wank? Now imagine that except as a Maroon 5 song.
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