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Feb 21, 2012A listen to Melt clearly conveys their wider world-view and is as ambitious as it is engaging (and a real treat to hear on headphones, to boot).
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Feb 14, 2012The band are probably a little too ambitious for their own good, but kudos to them for not holding back.
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Feb 13, 2012This is a discernibly different beast from any aforementioned acts of convenient comparison – from a distance, sure, it has its similarities, but zoom in and it's an exquisite new breed to behold.
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Feb 15, 2012There are moments where the album drags, and there's no one that's going to be declaring this a modern classic, but with this strong debut, Young Magic have cemented themselves as a band to watch in the coming years.
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Apr 4, 2012Young Magic transform their emulation into a transformation of a style that's like nothing else out there.
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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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Feb 21, 2012Young Magic borrow influences from all over the place and transform them into a sound they can proudly call their own.
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Feb 16, 2012From the album's very first strains, you know something mysterious, maybe even mystical, is afoot.
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Mar 16, 2012They forge a magicalworld of trippy vocal electronica.
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Feb 13, 2012This is an LP that promised much but ultimately it's a puzzling affair.
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Feb 22, 2012Young Magic are even more dizzyingly chaotic [than The Ruby Suns].
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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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Jun 28, 2012Melt doesn't sound fractured because of a glut of geographical references but because of its pieced-together nature.
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Feb 13, 2012It's a cushy listen, if not only always distinctive, particularly since the shorter tracks often amount to a cooled, deep-blue gelatin that holds the previously released singles together.
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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 16, 2012It's clear that Young Magic have all the tools and instincts down pat; even without meaning to, this album delves happily, though briefly, into pop excellence.
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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 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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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."