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Mar 18, 2014Darlings is a record that feels simultaneously cerebral and carnal--and things don’t get much sexier than that.
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Mar 18, 2014Darlings is enormously enjoyable but it is also familiar, sometimes overly so--comfortable in a way that implies Drew is content to rest on his impressive laurels.
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Mar 17, 2014Darlings comes across as a more focused and decidedly more solo effort than its predecessor.
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Mar 19, 2014You get a good sense of just what kind of man Drew is on Darlings, reconciling monogamy with promiscuity, Broken Social Scene’s cheap-seats bombast with love-seat confidentiality.
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Mar 17, 2014While it lacks the raw, jubilant catharsis of a Broken Social Scene release, Darlings is both understated and refined, showcasing the many facets of Drew’s romantic songwriting.
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UncutMar 17, 2014This is another uplifting, honest set. [Apr 2014, p.71]
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Mar 17, 2014An admirably well-balanced attempt by Drew to really strike out on his own.
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Mar 17, 2014Where Darlings shows growth and change is in Drew's fine-tuning of his illustrious sound.
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Mar 24, 2014Darlings is very listenable and mostly fun--just don’t overthink it and keep the BSS comparisons to a minimum.
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May 14, 2014Even with dusted-up cuts, Darlings nonetheless highlights Drew's divine ability to craft an eloquent ballad all by himself.
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Mar 24, 2014Darlings is warm and expansive and sexy, and feels like a more intimate affair than his debut, 2007’s ‘Spirit If...’.
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Mar 18, 2014Drew's songs still zone out, but the focus here is on a stripped-down luster somewhere between occasional bandmate Feist and the National.
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Mar 17, 2014Equal parts lo-fi sketch-like song structure and buffed-to-a-shine ’80s soft rock, these 12 songs are evidently personal and, at times, thematically obscure.
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Mar 17, 2014A few verses drag out too long, but Drew’s storytelling remains firmly in the foreground.
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Mar 17, 2014The best parts of Darlings make you work, as Drew does, to peel back the surface and dig into what’s there but some of it just leaves us with quiet, impenetrably sweet sounds that repetition can’t quite crack through.
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Apr 2, 2014Darlings is a concrete mixer full of ideas, although it’s tricky to pinpoint if Drew’s actually laid the foundations of a decent record.
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Mar 20, 2014Unfortunately after [the first two tracks] the album settles into a post-coital snooze that it doesn't really wake from.
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Q MagazineMar 17, 2014Although things quieten down on the pseudo-R Kelly front as the record progresses, the squirm factor never totally vanishes. [Apr 2014, p.106]
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Mar 18, 2014