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70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. 90
    From their dream-pop origins, through their psychedelic sophomore, they have arrived at a spiritual revolution with Emerald Classics. It's a development to be proud of, to feel good about.
  2. A wide-eyed, serotonin rush of an album that will make you eternally grateful for Swim Deep’s perseverance.
  3. Oct 4, 2019
    70
    Heavily indebted to ‘90s indie pop but never boringly reverential - it’s the sound of a band mining the past into a vibrant future.
  4. Oct 4, 2019
    70
    At times, you yearn for a little more grit among all the blissed-out euphoria, but ultimately the hooks are big enough to sink in and take hold.
  5. Q Magazine
    Oct 22, 2019
    60
    Sadly much of this record is stuck in the shallows. [Dec 2019, p.114]
  6. Oct 4, 2019
    60
    Similarly to how grungy Gen-Xers both co-opted and rejected the music and aesthetics of their boomer parents, on Emerald Classics Swim Deep conversely embrace and slough off the remaining dust of '90s Brit-pop nostalgia. They may have been inspired by the music that was at its peak around the time they were born, but they aren't going to drown in its wake.

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