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Mar 15, 2016It remains a fun and enjoyable pop record, even if its creators do seem more reluctant than ever to venture from their well established comfort zones.
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Mar 4, 2016Falling somewhere in between the sophistication of Everything Everything and the flamboyancy of Maroon Five, it isn’t until the halfway point, and ‘I Feel the Weight’ that the familiar chill of previous releases is restored.
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Mar 4, 2016It’s a pleasantly relaxed portrait of a band kicking back and stretching its legs.
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Mar 3, 2016The architecture of these layered slices of electro-pop is transparent, but the songs never offer more than surface pleasures.
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Mar 3, 2016It’s an album that feels insubstantial at times, but is a lot of fun nevertheless.
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Mar 2, 2016As accessible as most of it is, though, the band can’t seem to resist throwing strange electronic sounds and off-kilter ideas into the mix, which helps offset some of their blander tendencies.
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MojoFeb 23, 2016Closer listening finds thin-voiced New Yorker Andrew Wyatt undercutting the Swedish Britney Spears producers' sleek earworms with sing-along melancholy. [Apr 2016, p.96]
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Q MagazineFeb 23, 2016Confidence is attractive, but iii is a little too composed. [Apr 2016, p.111]
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Mar 1, 2016Aside from “For U” (which features Charli XCX) and its Bloc Party aping intro, almost all of the fist-pumping energy of the debut has receded into a more mature, yet less thrilling persona.
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Mar 11, 2016It wants to achieve what other singles artists (Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber) do with hits-and-filler records that boast enough of the former to justify the existence of the latter. Instead, Miike Snow’s got the filler but only half-failed attempts at hits.
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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Mar 4, 2016