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Oct 2, 201270Lightning is no kind of departure, but the slight variations in sound and the slightly expanded emotional palette mean that it's an improvement over the last record or two.
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Oct 19, 201240The other songs beg for remixes, guest vocalists or anything to give them more depth. [Nov 2012, p.92]
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Oct 2, 201260On their fourth LP, Lightning, the lovebirds have made songwriting a priority; but, as is the case with their high-energy, perpetually happy, DIY, song-along anthems, the lyrics alternate between the profound and the overwrought.
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Oct 2, 201283Even with handclaps, tap-dancing synths, and cheerleader chants, though, the Brooklyn duo sound more punk than twee in Lightning.
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Oct 3, 201260Although decidedly a step up from their last effort, the sloppy and forgetful Sidewalks, Lightning still finds the duo stuck in the same routine.
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Oct 10, 201260Lightening returns to the tried-and-true formula that has worked so well for them. [No. 92, p.56]
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Oct 10, 201260Lightening returns to the tried-and-true formula that has worked so well for them. [No. 92, p.56]
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Oct 2, 201270They are still committed to immaturity; all these songs have a special affection for youth and fittingly incorporate threads from hip hop.
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Oct 25, 201251In the context of Matt & Kim's discography, Lightning is inconsequential. Like an echo of an echo, there's nothing here that Matt & Kim haven't already done over and over again.
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Oct 3, 201260"Much Too Late" is a rant that seems to come out of nowhere and doesn't fit in with anything else on this record. Aside from that, though, this is good stuff.
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Oct 2, 201250The band's thrift-store pastiche, from that track's skidding-siren hook to a few not-quite-ecstatic EDM-style builds, has a manic, self-aware intensity – call it grandiosi-twee. And try to take it in small doses.
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Oct 2, 201250In getting back to basics, however, the record leaves out the memorable hooks that make the whole formula work.
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Nov 30, 201260Lightning occasionally dips into the annoyingly upbeat. [Oct/Nov 2012, p.129]