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  • Record Label: Trouble in Mind
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Garage Rock Revival, French Pop
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Jan 7, 2014
    80
    Crucially, this is an album lacks cynicism and one that bathes in a love of its antecedents so deep that the final results are as seductive and mesmerising as their live show.
  2. Dec 17, 2013
    80
    For while Costa Blanca superficially suggests a trip to some Euro-trash mall outlet, listen closer and you hear a dark, subversive critique.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jan 7, 2014
    80
    Exotic, hip and exuding an effortless charm, Costa Blanca is a sophisticated treat from start to finish. [Jan 2014, p.120]
  4. Dec 17, 2013
    70
    Mostly though, the album is a successful blending of the past and present, with every new idea working out just right, with the end result being an album that capitalizes on the Liminañas' many established strengths and sends them shooting off in new directions that prove just as satisfying.
  5. 60
    All boxes ticked for hip retromaniacs, but certainly not “the next millennium”.
  6. Dec 17, 2013
    60
    French pop in its purest form hasn't really got its groove back since the 60s, but, wisely, it's this very era that this Perpignan duo mine, marrying fuzzed-out psychedelia and agreeably rambling rock with the pop sweetness of that decade's chansons.