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Q MagazineMay 28, 2014Another triumphant reaffirmation of UK dance music's mass appeal. [Jun 2014, p.120]
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May 28, 2014While what Clean Bandit are doing is incredibly interesting, it’s probably premature to say that they’re harbingers of musical enlightenment. They may, however, be the heralds of super-duper/boogietacular parties across the summer.
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Jun 3, 2014While there are hours of discussions to be had about whether "electronic/classical" hybrids can consistently sound good in a pop context, New Eyes provides ample evidence for erring on the electronic side of that split.
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Jun 3, 2014New Eyes remains such a small, subtle, and soft record that by the end, it doesn't feel very daring or different.
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Jun 2, 2014At its best, New Eyes is proof that you can get away with pretty much anything as long as you're clever about it. Even in its more ordinary moments, it's still a classical gas.
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May 28, 2014Sometimes great, often fun, but mostly quite confused, it’s not a focused LP--though it’s certainly an expression of the oddness of 2014.
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Jun 10, 2014It's not all bad, and sometimes the reverse is true, with the strings the best thing about the track; the opening figure from 'A+E' is very pretty and the violin rising up in 'Cologne' is melodious and elegant, but they both give way to more of the electro-flotsam.
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Jun 2, 2014There’s melody and slick production throughout, but all the life and soul of an accountancy website.
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Jun 5, 2014After an ‘Our Version of Events’-worthy build, it’s crying out for something slightly off-kilter to douse the saccharine overload, but instead shoots for a bounding chorus of ‘Rather Be’-proportions, which misses in favour of something that can only be described as 90s dance clunk.
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May 29, 2014The lyrics are uniformly awful.
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May 28, 2014The classical elements are independently pleasing--as you’d expect when elements of Shostakovich, Mozart and so on are used--but by drenching it all in commercial dance production, the supposed ‘fusion’ becomes a bastardisation.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 45
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Mixed: 6 out of 45
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Negative: 3 out of 45
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