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Jul 13, 2015Ultimately, Years & Years are so passionately in touch with their influences, they've transformed them into something new and full of the light.
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Jul 10, 2015Broaching love, lust, power-dynamics, jealousy, and heartbreak along the way, Years & Years bring that all important human touch to their massive pop anthems.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2015Years & Years may not be with us for the long haul. But right now, they're picture perfect. [Aug 2015, p.110]
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Jul 9, 2015Communion is brimming with razor-sharp summer pop anthems that succeed in bringing a smile to your face time and time again.
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Jul 16, 2015Here, and on the album’s other highlights, the air of mercantile anonymity feels generous rather than cynical, the music as anxious to accommodate its imagined audience.
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Jul 23, 2015Iif you’re looking for some pop perfection, this album displays it in droves.... However, things take a huge tumble when Years & Years try not to stick to their confessional-electronic niche.
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Jul 15, 2015All of these lyrical open wounds could be hard to stomach if not for the salve that Emre Turkmen and Mikey Goldsworthy’s head-spinning instrumentals provide.
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Jul 8, 2015Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers. But in this album’s most thrilling moments, whether the music is effective because it’s familiar or familiar because it’s effective almost ceases to be a concern.
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Jul 7, 2015Communion’s minimal song titles are indicative of a no-nonsense approach to song writing--but like most good pop songs they unpeel different layers of production with repeated listening.
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Jul 6, 2015Behind the dance bump, Communion is confessional synth-pop with a heart full of heavy feelings.
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MojoJul 28, 2015The hits may well keep rolling in for Years & Years, but next time a bit more adventure wouldn't go amiss. [Sep 2015, p.87]
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Jul 10, 2015Years & Years don’t seem to have an original idea in their collective heads, but that doesn’t neccessarily mean that Communion is unenjoyable.
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Jul 6, 2015Too often their light touch turns lightweight, even wan.
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Jul 6, 2015Even if Years & Years aren’t taking any risks with the sound of the moment, they use it to good effect.
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Jul 9, 2015Communion may be the end result of years of refinement, but you can't help but feel it was reached on someone else's terms.
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Jul 6, 2015There’s a lot here that’s nice, but nothing that really screams out its demands to be listened to.
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Jul 13, 2015It’s wall-to-wall tish, tish, tish, yearn, yearn, yearn. There’s little rhythmic diversity.
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Jul 6, 2015Communion takes no risks and says nothing.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 126 out of 146
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Mixed: 12 out of 146
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Negative: 8 out of 146
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Jul 10, 2015
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Jul 17, 2015
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Sep 26, 2015