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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 4 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the French pop band includes one track in English.
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  • Record Label: Disque Pointu
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Indie Pop, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Neo-Psychedelia
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Apr 6, 2021
    90
    Paradigmes is an album that, whilst recalling a concession of progenitors, has no modern-day comparison.
  2. 80
    It’s equal parts silly, serious, camp, and on occasion mildly ridiculous, but remains wildly inventive throughout, it’s one hell of a party.
  3. Apr 6, 2021
    80
    La Femme's passion for seeking out new (or vintage) sounds to add to their omnivorous pop is contagious, and never more so than on Paradigmes.
  4. Apr 6, 2021
    69
    Paradigmes is a good time, but its intellectual merit is entirely surface level. It’s like watching the funniest person in a college philosophy seminar give a presentation they failed to prepare in advance: you laugh, but not because you learned anything.
  5. Apr 6, 2021
    60
    La Femme toss so many weird and interesting ideas against the wall, that for every gorgeous moment that sticks, there’s an awkward miss.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jul 1, 2023
    9
    Love this! Song by song you can feel how fascinating sounds are flowing through the veins.
  2. Apr 8, 2021
    8
    This album doesn’t have the edginess of Psycho Tropical, or the pop gleam of Mystere.

    It does however contain brilliantly kooky, immersive
    This album doesn’t have the edginess of Psycho Tropical, or the pop gleam of Mystere.

    It does however contain brilliantly kooky, immersive pop songs, which is what La Femme are about.

    What the album does lack is a killer song. Pschyo had Hypsoline and sur la planche, Mystere had Mycose (Cool Colorado is Mycose slowed down!) and exerciseur.

    La Femme are a video band first and foremost and the videos don’t hit the spot like the last 2 albums worth. I think they miss Lucas as he had a comedic quality missing in most of the new videos,
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