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Q MagazineFeb 22, 2012The harmonies never reach the heights of say, Toro Y Moi--though Night In The Ocean's fusion of hip-hop thud and buzzing shoegaze guitars shows a welcome willingness to try. [Mar 2012, p.113]
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Feb 22, 2012While standards are generally high on the record's first half, it feels like three EPs have been welded together to form Melt.
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Feb 17, 2012Its Yeasayer-aping can seem too familiar at times, but on the whole Young Magic's debut is a beguiling brain-burp of a listen.
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Feb 14, 2012As it stands today, they're just another band doing a very familiar thing--at least they're doing it really well.
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UncutFeb 13, 2012It's frequently impressive and occasionally lovely, but often loses its soul in Emmanuel's relentless barrage of spectacular effects. [Mar 2012, p.107]
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Mar 12, 2012Repetition robbed of progression; themes are lobbed at the listener ad nauseum, until the whole thing is downgraded from "danceable" to "wallpaper."
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Feb 17, 2012A largely tepid and boring travelogue across a glacial and downtempo soundscape that offers little in variety or abstraction.
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Feb 13, 2012This is an LP that promised much but ultimately it's a puzzling affair.
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Jun 28, 2012Melt doesn't sound fractured because of a glut of geographical references but because of its pieced-together nature.