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Jan 11, 201283The U.K. duo's latest, produced by indie kingmaker Paul Epworth (Adele), updates the best of '80s shoegaze with breakbeat rhythms and arena-worthy choruses.
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Jan 31, 201280This is top-drawer pop, ambitious and thrillingly contemporary. [Feb 2012, p.94
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Feb 7, 201276Future This delivers the same formula, but does so with perhaps one too many tracks.
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Jan 17, 201275It's uncomplicated and unfettered, a perfectly fine album.
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Feb 17, 201270Perhaps keen to avoid their one-hit wonder status, follow-up Future This eschews their original experimental ambitions by shamelessly attempting to repeat its success.
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Jan 19, 201270It largely succeeds.
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Jan 17, 201270The Big Pink has put out an electro-rock album that does not exactly redefine the future of music like the album title may suggest, but it does redefine the Big Pink.
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Jan 17, 201270Future This is a shift to a cleansed, more professional-minded sound, capturing their flares in short, distinct bursts.
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Jan 13, 201270As the sound of a band still in development mode and not quite sure of their identity, Future This offers a lucid insight into where their next sonic adventure may take them.
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Jan 9, 201270Future This is a coherent, uniform proposition, a proper album, rather than a melange of posturing and botched experimentation, as was the case with A Brief History Of Love.
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Jan 9, 201270[The closing track is] evidence of a big pink heart and of these musicians' ability to transcend their beats-based mindset. In other words, time for the boys to really future this.
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Jan 9, 201270While offering more of the same, nevertheless does it with sparkle and verve.
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Jan 17, 201269It demands attention, and it has just enough glitch and grime to remind you that it's not 30 years old.
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Jan 10, 201263Future This is ultimately more melodic than its laborious predecessor. But around the "ballads" in the second half, you start longing for a point.
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Feb 10, 201260The album's middle section treads water--'The Palace' passes by without making any impression whatsoever, '1313′ sounds like a more conventional Panda Bear--and then it all goes tits up.
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Feb 10, 201260A thick as muck yet intelligent pop album.
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Jan 26, 201260The result is an album with chart-worthy songs that are uncomfortably familiar at times and a touch low on risk.
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Jan 18, 201260Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell's second album isn't done for by a lack of ambition, but rather the imagination required to realise it.
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Jan 9, 201260The album sags in the middle, descending into slick electro-rock territory worryingly reminiscent to Garbage, but the good songs are terrific. [Feb 2012, p.81]
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Jan 9, 201260So the songs merge into one, and the parts add up to less than the whole. And taken as a whole Future This is a bit much.
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Jan 17, 201252Where the Big Pink previously sounded invincible, nearly every attempt to intellectualize or streamline their sound makes Future This come off as timid and malnourished.
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Feb 10, 201250It's the inconsistency of Future This--particularly the band's newfound tenderness vs. Their miscalculated explosions of noise--that make it a largely baffling listen.
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Jan 19, 201250If only conviction had been more successfully transposed onto their music, the band could have produced a follow-up that would not have had to contend with standing in its predecessor's large, looming shadow.
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Jan 18, 201250Everyone involved seems to simply be shrugging along in an almost cynical fashion, figuring people will buy it no matter what they do.
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Jan 17, 201250The Big Pink's insistence on keeping their amplifiers and ambition turned all the way up to 11 for the length of Future This makes for a decidedly dull listen and one that'll leave many fans hoping that the band will scale things back for album number three.
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Jan 12, 201250The fumbling effort to harmonize their irreverence and earnestness leaves the Big Pink ultimately stranded, and the result is a hook-deficient album that wears on the ears after only a few listens.
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Jan 11, 201250For those who don't mind a slight drop-off in substance, Future This packs all the energy needed to fill arenas and get people jumping and swaying in a U2-inspired trance.
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Jan 13, 201240A few decent songs may be lurking behind all the sonic detritus; but perhaps they ought to ditch the multitracks and get themselves a ukulele.
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Jan 12, 201240Much of this followup sounds like it's aiming to replicate the feel of that radio-friendly unit-shifter [Dominos] rather than the dreamy haze of early songs like Velvet. Occasionally it works.
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Jan 10, 201240Sees Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze being drawn further into the stadium-electro wind tunnel. [Feb. 2012 p. 101]
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Jan 30, 201239The majority of Future This is a punishingly noisy, hookless mess that contains precious few of the qualities that endeared folks to the Big Pink to begin with.
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Jan 13, 201230In the end it's hard to fathom just who is going to really love this album.
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Jan 17, 201229Future This is stuck in some kind of awful, awful limbo between Robert Smith-less Cure and hyperbolic electro dance music.