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- Summary: The third full-length release for Dev Hynes was self-produced and released three days ahead of its scheduled release date.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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[Verse 1] My father was a young man My mother off the boat My eyes were fresh at 21 Bruised but still afloat Our heads have hit the pavement Many... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 26 out of 30
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Mixed: 4 out of 30
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Negative: 0 out of 30
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Jul 1, 2016What keeps Hynes grounded is his sense of emotion, demonstrated in the seductively smooth funk undercurrents of “E.V.P.” (featuring Debbie Harry), evoking George McCrae’s stunted yet whisper-like vocals.
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Jul 25, 2016It’s melodically strong enough, and bursting with so many ideas that it feels incredibly timeless: futuristic and classic all at once.
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Jun 30, 2016Freetown resonates with everyone sagging under the weight of systemic oppression.
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Jun 28, 2016Dev Hynes' work--populist, experimental, healing, agitating, straightforward, multi-layered--demonstrates this unfailingly. Prince's radical pop spirit lives on in many artists. But none are channeling it more fully, or artfully.
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Jun 29, 2016With Freetown Sound, he’s made something bold, challenging, uncompromising and overlong--an album, like the man who made it, that’s the sum of its parts and then some.
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Jul 21, 2016Admittedly, sometimes the album’s ambition does threaten to trip itself up--there’s a few too many half-sketched ideas crammed in, as opposed to fully formed songs; a bit of ruthless editing might have whittled down the running time to a more manageable 50 minutes or so. However, there’s certainly more highlight than filler contained in Freetown Sound and it is, ultimately, an album that deserves to be heard.
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Jun 28, 2016It’s often passionate, illuminating and fascinating, it frequently bears the hallmarks of self-indulgence, and some of it, you get the feeling, might only make sense to its author.
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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