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Jan 29, 2013There are echoes of Duran Duran, ABC and more here, but thankfully without the horribly cheap and nasty production values.
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Feb 1, 2013The production drips with gloss, but unlike Acolyte, it’s a gloss that obscures rather than glimmers.
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Jan 28, 2013Collections constitutes a fairly sharp decline.
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UncutJan 24, 2013It's certainly a bold move that will either send them stratospheric or sink them completely. [Feb 2013, p.71]
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Q MagazineJan 24, 2013While Acolyte sounded assured, Collections occasionally projects a sense of strain. [Feb 2013, p.103]
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Jan 24, 2013Delphic's determination to bring together so many possible new directions proves the album's undoing, and it peters out towards the end.
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Jan 24, 2013Having been dogged with comparisons to Friendly Fires since their formation, it is ironic that this record perhaps sounds like the kind of misstep that the St. Albans band made themselves with their second album 'Pala'.
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Mar 7, 2013Too often, however, songs succumb to the stylings that make bad mainstream pop music garish and annoying rather than uplifting and catchy.
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Jan 28, 2013Collections is enjoyable, in the way that ready meals can be enjoyable, with their sugar hit and empty calories, their disposability and easy consumption.
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Jan 28, 2013Collections is a confident and professional album, not all that different to 'Acolyte'. And it's not different enough.
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Jan 25, 2013On the whole, Collections is a misfire and proof that, sometimes, re-inventing the wheel doesn't always reap rewards.
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Jan 28, 2013Collections, their second effort, mislays what little charm Delphic possessed, tilting at the big pop statement in uneven bursts.