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- Record Label: Matador
- Release Date: Feb 16, 2018
- Summary: The 15-track release for the Scottish indie pop group led by Stuart Murdoch was produced by Leo Abrahams. It collects the songs from three earlier EPs released in December, January and February into one full-length album.
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- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Feb 14, 2018Recording in his Glasgow hometown helps provide a vibrant, unhurried enthusiasm that’s contagious. Each track is enhanced with guests periodically contributing horns, woodwinds, strings, and even French horns and glockenspiels.
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Feb 26, 2018How to Solve Our Human Problems is difficult to pin down. In some ways, Belle and Sebastian's new work represents unexplored territory—yet, the group have been around for so long that one could find elements of nearly every one of their last albums in the 15 collected tracks of this EP trilogy.
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Mar 30, 2018These beautiful, beguiling melodies make for an album that’s so rich and regal in both style and shimmer, it’s simply stunning to say the least. Prepare to be enticed.
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UncutFeb 14, 2018It won't cure humanity's ills, but it does a fine job of rejuvenating a band entering its third decade. [Mar 2018, p.22]
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Feb 15, 2018This 15-track set offers a tasting menu of the Scottish band’s strengths.
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Feb 15, 2018Since this is a series of five-song EPs, Human Problems isn't paced like an LP, which is a benefit. Perhaps there are moments that drift, such as the mellow bachelor pad neo-instrumental "Everything Is Now," but they're designed that way, offering color and texture to music that already had a surplus of both.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2018There's polish here aplenty, yes, but less majesty. [Mar 2018, p.107]
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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