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Aug 8, 2011If Knee Deep is "challenging," it's not the kind of challenging that exhausts you. It's the kind that thrills you.
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UncutJun 3, 2011Some of the more routine synth-pop cuts lack weight, but the distant echoes of A-Ha's "The Living Daylights" buried within "Musketeer" are wholly endearing. [Jul 2011, p.103]
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May 11, 2011WhoMadeWho have been accomplished, even inspired, in the past, but here they emerge on a whole new level, displaying a subtle command of tension and release and an assured, seamless blending of rock and electronics, suffused with unfeigned emotionalism, which calls to mind the confidence and mastery of marquee acts like LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead.
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May 11, 2011Like much of the dark electronic pop that's come before WhoMadeWho's latest, the drive behind the music is the key to success.
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May 11, 2011More dancefloor domination beckons for the Danish trio--and these tracks should once again work a treat live. Let's just hope they don't leave it too long.
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May 11, 2011This is still playful stuff, just more subtly so. But to see WhoMadeWho settle into this mode feels like a significant loss of joie de vivre from a group who were once some of dance music's most flagrant disco clowns.