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Q MagazineMay 13, 2013Functional yet uninspiring, Optica is pop as Ikea catalog. [Jun 2013, p.104]
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May 9, 2013In the end, it’s all a little too demure to really shout out loud about.
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MagnetMar 15, 2013It boasts Wembley-sized sound and a few huge singles that aspire to confuse Stockholm for a UK colony. [No. 96, p.59]
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Mar 8, 2013The songs on Optica are a second, more confident assertion of this workmanlike incarnation of the band, but they still feel impermeable.
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Feb 27, 2013With the jazz-flute-driven “Walking In Your Footsteps” rounding out the highlights, it’s these tracks that radiate the most, but the whole LP serves as a welcome illumination of the otherwise abandoned dance floor we call February.
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Feb 26, 2013Much like its predecessor, Optica's pervasive mildness doesn't give you much to latch onto.