• Record Label: Sup Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 2, 2010
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Mojo
    60
    While he's putting love into these rippling, galloping beats, the vocal melodies get a little samey. [Apr 2010, p.103]
  2. Q Magazine
    60
    It may lack enough heavy hitters to equal the sucess of "Merriweather Post Pavilion," yet the aptly named McPhun has created a Technicolor, synapse-tickling delight. [Apr 2010, p.119]
  3. While hardly acting as a complete departure from previous efforts, the Ruby Suns’ third outing regrettably cuts itself off at the knees too often to be considered either progressive or a total success.
  4. Surprisingly enough, it lacks a strong sense of focus (something the creative basking of Sea Lion honed in on) and for all of its elements of sweeping grandiosity, they never seem to have much of a purpose.
  5. With Fight Softly they seem so out of sync, so bland and so disappointing.
  6. Vocalist Ryan McPhun deftly walks the line between embarassing naivete and calculation.

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