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Aug 20, 2013This is body music, sure, but not for crowds of people eager to move--this is music to spend the night in to.
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Jul 26, 2013Patricia Hall and Ian Hicks have found the perfect balance between the moody and the danceable, making the whole home clubbing experience all the more realistic.
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Jul 19, 2013Combining a driving beat with melancholy vocals may not exactly be anything new in pop music, but the juxtaposition of the two here elicits an entrancing state more conducive to impassioned swaying than outright dancing.
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Jul 16, 2013The way that Soft Metals experiment with repetition without needing much time to do so is unusual and impressive, with Lenses ending up so much stronger for allowing the ideas behind the music to drift into view of the audience.
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Aug 8, 2013While the new forms forged from the genre manipulation here begets novelty and, yeah, interesting music, ultimately you’re left feeling unfulfilled.... In the end, though, it’s hard to begrudge adventurousness, especially when the end product is this pleasing.
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Jul 31, 2013Ultimately, Lenses is a masterly album and Soft Metals’ brand of inventive, ghostly electro is a welcome break from the flood of brainless EDM that’s cluttering up airwaves and dancefloors everywhere at the moment.
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Jul 17, 2013It’s an album for a seductive but thoughtful loft party.
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Jul 16, 2013Even if Lenses' individual tracks remain as foggy as dry ice on the dancefloor, as a whole the album brings Soft Metals' music into focus, revealing them as a tighter, more versatile group in the process.
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Jul 16, 2013There’s no doubt that Soft Metals know their genre well, and through all the creepiness, there’s a kind of joy in hearing two young musicians in their element.
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Aug 2, 2013In the end, Lenses comes off like a proggy, synth pop album that wants to get treated like sound sculpture, but Soft Metals don't fully commit to either endeavor in spite of the record's handful of successes.
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UncutJul 31, 2013Aside from the squelchy hypnotism of "In The Air," it's often a little aimless. [Sep 2013, p.94]
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Jul 30, 2013Lenses, despite its four-to-the-floor tendencies and impeccable imagery, falls flat.
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Jul 16, 2013While this could have been a record defined by atmosphere, the near-absence of energy and long, formless instrumental sections will have listeners tuning out long before it hits any sort of stride.