Boys and Diamonds - Rainbow Arabia
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  • Summary: The husband-and-wife duo releases its debut full-length album of African and Middle Eastern-influenced music.
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  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Euro synth duo, tuneful and sometimes haunting, always droney fun‑-textured, beaty lines under an unnaturally high-voiced girly-woman singing lyrics of no importance when you can make them out, which isn't often.
  2. Mar 10, 2011
    80
    Sometimes befuddling but never boring, Rainbow Arabia is making music that ultimately sounds like no one else's.
  3. May 2, 2011
    60
    This follow-up to their debut shows more polish and a firmer grasp on rhythm. [Apr 2011, p.106]
  4. 30
    Boys and Diamonds ends up being hindered by the the same awkward, mock-ethnic yelps the duo seems to feel the need for on every other song they cut and the empty, tinny nonsense they seem to arrive at all too often as they attempt to craft memorable pop.

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