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May 4, 2011The regression in complexity seems to underscore the band's endorsement of arrested development as the secret to eternal youth. Their perpetual glee suggests that maybe they're onto something.
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Apr 29, 2011Consistently being an upbeat adult isn't exactly an easy thing to do and at least here the band show that they can mature without having to completely forget who they once were.
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May 4, 2011The record plays like an old mixtape: a few songs you dig, a few you forget, and two or three you can't stop playing, that you can't keep from becoming part of a night the pictures can't do justice, of a packed dance-floor, of a girl you didn't kiss, of a midnight drive.
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Aug 30, 2011The album is musically in the vein of future island funk/disco meeting '80s synth-pop.
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Alternative PressMay 16, 2011There are a kit if sounds present, but the band manage to make them come together as one. [Jun 2011, p.106]
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May 4, 2011Overall Moment Bends is a return to form, if not quite as inspired as Architecture in Helsinki's best moments.
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May 2, 2011Places Like This proved that Architecture in Helsinki could grow out of their early sound without growing tame, that they could change their voice but keep their charm; Moment Bends too often finds them losing one, the other, or both.
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Jun 17, 2019This is a great album which grows to near-perfection upon several listens. Definitely under-rated.