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Aug 19, 2011CSS's La Liberacion offers a much more serviceable blend of their original X-Ray Spex-style doughty amateurism with their slicker, sleeker electropop self.
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Aug 23, 2011On their third effort, it's still the sexy that sells us.
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Aug 26, 2011They may not be as confident here as they were on their first album, but La Liberacion's best moments are direct and fun, and there's no shame in that.
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Aug 22, 2011This has more bounce and sees Lovefoxxx & co close to their best.
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Alternative PressAug 19, 2011La Liberacion's digi-pop breakdowns, reggae-tinged zaps and punky power-pop will please anyone who wrote the band off after 2008's too-glosy Donkey. [Sep 2011, p.112]
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Aug 23, 2011CSS has chosen-either wisely or ambivalently-to just float along.
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Aug 23, 2011By album's end, CSS are back to their old irreverent ways, screaming that title lyric repeatedly, nearly drowned out by sax blasts and cowbell.
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Sep 1, 2011Despite its inconsistencies, La Liberacion undoubtedly mixes it up.
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MojoAug 30, 2011They return with an album that tries hard to please, its brace of ultra-catchy, bubblegum dance-pop tracks constructed from teh same building blocks as Tom Tom Club's playground. [Sept. 2011, p. 98]
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Aug 23, 2011La Liberación is not a new lease of life but perhaps a glimpse of one - if only in moments, if only in one track, there still seems to be enough to keep them going. And on those good bits alone, they're worth just one more chance.
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Aug 22, 2011Excise a few tracks and La Liberacion would make a good soundtrack to the summer, or what's left of it at least
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Under The RadarAug 19, 2011Disappointingly, the second half of the album loses some of the sting. [Jul 2011, p.79]
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UncutAug 19, 2011The sparkier La Liberacion goes some way to restoring their reputation as festival favourites. [Sep 2011, p.81]
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Aug 18, 2011La Liberación is so fixated on exhibiting its sense of fun that it forgets how to finish ideas in the process.
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Sep 8, 2011Their experiments don't always yield useful results-- the downcast, acoustic-guitar-powered "Partners in Crime" comes awkwardly decorated with free-form piano rolls that trip up rather than propel the song's momentum. But there are moments when CSS find a way to successfully evolve without alienating their base.
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Aug 30, 2011the atypical sincerity of La Liberacion suggests that something--whether the burdens of relentless sexiness or beating pop music at its own game too soon--still does.
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Aug 22, 2011CSS may care deeply about every song (though it often doesn't sound like it), but for the listener, a lot of the charm has worn off.
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Sep 14, 2011There are some lovely, warm, breezy beats, as on "Hits Me Like a Rock", but the vocals seem so drenched in effects that it takes away from any kind of earthiness, and Bobby Gillespie's appearance seems fatuous, a nod to the kind of sound they are hoping to achieve.
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Aug 25, 2011CSS are so desperate to do something new that they never stick with their strengths.
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Aug 22, 2011La Liberacion is better in its quieter moments.
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Aug 18, 2011Never as smartly entertaining as Peaches or amusingly stupid as Ke$ha, CSS is caught in the middling center, and so is La Liberacion.
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Q MagazineAug 19, 2011They fail to relocate it [their exuberance] on the follow-up, which if anything, is even drearier. [Sep 2011, p.104]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Aug 23, 2011
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Oct 3, 2011After listening to La Liberación Iâ