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- Summary: Genres such as hip-hop, soul, dubstep, electronic, and West African music are featured on the debut album for the New York-based trio, who come via Australia and Indonesia.
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- Record Label: Carpark Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 9 out of 20
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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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Feb 22, 2012Young Magic are even more dizzyingly chaotic [than The Ruby Suns].
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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 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 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 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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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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