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Dec 23, 2010Mostly these songs seem slight and shy, unable, really, to support the massive facades of synth and disco drums that Small Black layers onto them.
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Dec 22, 2010Where's the NoDoz? Chillwave may have officially become too chill, bros.
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Dec 22, 2010New Chain is unmistakably chillwave, undeniably fashionable within the American music scene right now, but doesn't half make you yearn for a bit of sunshine.
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Q MagazineDec 20, 2010Their first full album polishes some rough edges down to a soft-focus burr as synths eddy away in a fog of sound that is often only given direct form by the haphazard beats beneath. [Dec 2010, p.113]
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MojoDec 20, 2010Small Black are more convincing when they move into sharper focus. [Dec 2010, p.96]
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UncutDec 16, 2010A gooey, iffaintly sickly, treat. [Nov 2010, p.101]
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Nov 15, 2010They are making pretty, tightly structured pop songs cheaply, or at least pop songs that sound cheaply made, and pretty, and melancholy, and somehow detached and futuristic.
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Nov 15, 2010Small Black haven't quite mastered balancing their newfound polish with memorable songs, but New Chain's sound is so appealing that it could be considered one of the first chillwave albums aimed at the mainstream.