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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Afropop-influenced indie pop band led François Marry was produced by Ash Workman.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, French Pop
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 2 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Mar 21, 2014It is consistently fresh, inventive and beguiling, showing a band surely at the summit of their powers.
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Mar 21, 2014It’s not that the album is particularly any shorter than any other album – clocking in at around 40 minutes--it’s that it’s so tightly-packed with such consistently good content and is so musically pithy, that you just can’t ever really get enough out of it.
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Mar 21, 2014If E Volo Love was his breakout, Piano Ombre should be the record that will truly resonate with fans.
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Mar 21, 2014Piano Ombre proves that by being romantic, intimate and even forward-looking in the way the album positively addresses difficult times.
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Mar 21, 2014Dignified, confident and packed full of elevating song structures, Piano Ombre is an album many will find euphorically addictive.
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UncutMar 21, 2014The result is alternatively maddening and satisfying. [Apr 2014, p.74]
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Q MagazineMar 21, 2014It's not ground-breaking, but Piano Ombre is a beautifully off-kilter record to lose yourself in. [Apr 2014, p.109]